Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch resigns for Apple VP job

20 Mar 2013

Outgoing Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch

Adobe Systems’ CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company at the end of this week to take up a job at consumer tech giant Apple, as its vice-president of technologies.

Lynch will report to Apple’s senior vice-president Bob Mansfield, CNET reported.

Adobe said it won’t replace Lynch but will instead assign the CTO’s responsibilities to Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen and senior vice-president Bryan Lamkin.

News of Lynch’s resignation – but not his new job – came with Adobe’s SEC 8-K filing with its first-quarter financial results.

“Kevin Lynch resigned from his position as executive vice-president, chief technology officer, of Adobe Systems Incorporated, effective March 22, 2013, to pursue other opportunities,” Adobe said.

According to CNET, CNBC revealed Lynch’s move to Apple.

Yesterday, Adobe reported US$1.008bn in revenues for the last quarter, and profits of US$65.1m.

CFO Mark Garrett said Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite gained 153,000 subscribers in the last three months and 2m people have tried the free download.

Tina Costanza was a journalist and sub-editor at Silicon Republic

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