Fast facts

A quick overview of Adobe’s history,

leadership, key stats, and products.

About us
Adobe believes creativity empowers transformation—personally,
professionally, and across all industries. We not only deliver strong
financial results, but we’re also driving incredible innovation, adding
millions of new customers, delivering billions of experiences across
screens, and processing trillions of data transactions online.

Founded Corporate headquarters

December 1982 by Charles Geschke and San Jose, California, USA
John Warnock

Incorporated Stock symbol

October 1983 in California; reincorporated ADBE (NASDAQ)
in Delaware, May 1997

Initial public offering Revenue

August 20, 1986, at a split-adjusted share Fiscal 2019 revenue: US$11.17 billion
price of US$0.17 (FY ended Dec 1, 2019)

Employees
More than 22,000 worldwide
Our solutions

We believe in creativity for all, so we give everyone the tools to discover and express their creativity
through photography, design, video, animation, web and mobile user experiences, and more.

• Over 90% of the world’s creative professionals use Adobe Photoshop.

• Adobe Creative Cloud mobile apps have been downloaded over 376 million times.
• Adobe Stock offers 230 million+ assets, including 17 million videos; 37,000 audio tracks; 14 million+ Editorial
and Premium assets; and 200 million photos, vectors, illustrations, design templates, and 3D assets.

• Behance, Adobe’s online creative community, has over 23 million members. Creatives worldwide
use Behance to showcase work and find inspiration.

• Creative Cloud 2D and 3D design tools transform old “make, use, dispose” design processes into elegant,
sustainable, circular design workflows. A digital design phase means more resources for our planet.

We make it easy for people and businesses to create, edit, share, scan, and sign digital documents so
they can communicate and collaborate securely across devices.

• More than 250 billion PDFs were opened in Adobe products in the last year.
• More than 8 billion electronic and digital signature transactions were processed through Adobe Document
Cloud in the past year. The majority of Fortune 100 companies rely on Adobe Sign for fast, secure e-signatures.

• Adobe Scan is now the leading scanning app on iOS and Android, with more than 50 million downloads and
180 million scans.

• Documents created, signed, shared, and stored in Document Cloud drive a 90% cost savings and a 95%
reduction in environmental impact compared with paper-based processes.

• Every 1 million Adobe Sign transactions save 105 million liters of water, 31,000 trees, and the equivalent of
taking 2,300 cars off the road for a year—plus reducing costs by more than $7.2 million.

We give businesses unmatched solutions for content management, personalization, data analytics,
and commerce to deliver experiences that drive customer loyalty and long-term success.

• Industry analysts have named Adobe a leader in nearly 30 categories such as digital experience platforms, web
content management, customer analytics, ad technology, digital commerce, enterprise marketing software
suites, and more.

• Adobe Experience Cloud is supported by an expanding global ecosystem, which now includes nearly 13,000
solution integrator, agency, technology, and marketplace partners and more than 350,000 developers.

• With Adobe Analytics, we measure transactions from 80 of the top 100 U.S. online retailers, analyzing more
than a trillion visits to sites and over 100 million SKUs. We arm enterprises with the most comprehensive and
accurate insights for retail and e-commerce.
Our leaders
Shantanu Narayen Bryan Lamkin Dana Rao
Chairman, President, and Executive Vice President and Executive Vice President, General
Chief Executive Officer General Manager, Digital Media Counsel, and Corporate Secretary

Scott Belsky Ann Lewnes Charles Geschke

Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Co-founder
and Chief Product Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer
Creative Cloud

Anil Chakravarthy John Murphy John Warnock

Executive Vice President Executive Vice President Co-founder
and General Manager, and Chief Financial Officer
Digital Experience Business and
Worldwide Field Operations

Gloria Chen Abhay Parasnis

Chief People Officer and Chief Technology Officer
Executive Vice President, and Executive Vice President,
Employee Experience Strategy and Growth

Major acquisitions
Allegorithmic, 2019 Livefyre, 2016 Efficient Frontier, 2012
Marketo, 2018 Fotolia, 2015 Omniture, Inc., 2009
Magento, 2018 Behance, 2012 Macromedia, Inc., 2005

Corporate responsibility
We believe that creativity is the catalyst for positive change. Through our efforts, we
inspire creativity in people who want to make a meaningful impact in the following areas:

Creativity Sustainability Community

We support creators of all We’re always finding new ways We empower our people and
ages and backgrounds so they to conserve natural resources partners to better our world.
can use their creativity for in everything we do—and
good, express themselves, and we’ve seen big benefits for our
reach their full potential. business, our customers, and
our communities.
Our values
Genuine Innovative
We are sincere, trustworthy, and We’re highly creative and always striving to
reliable. connect new ideas with business realities.

Exceptional Involved
We’re committed to creating exceptional We’re inclusive, open, and actively engaged
experiences that delight our employees with our customers, partners, employees,
and customers. and the communities we serve.

Industry recognition
#10 The JUST 100 Best Employers for #2 World’s Most Admired
JUST Capital, 2020 Diversity Software Companies
Forbes, 2020 Fortune, 2019

The Civic 50 #5 Best Leadership Teams Recognized on the

Points of Light, 2020 Comparably, 2020 World’s Best CEOs list
Barron’s, 2019

Recognized on the Recognized on the Dow Recognized on the CDP

Disability Equality Index Jones Sustainability Index Climate Change A List
DEI, 2020 DJSI, 2020 CDP, 2019

Top 100 Internship Future 50 Sustainability Fortune’s Future 50

Programs All-Stars Fortune, 2019
WayUp, 2020 Fortune, 2019

Top 50 Best Places to 50 Best ESG Companies #1 Top-Rated Workplace

Work Investor’s Business Daily/ Indeed, 2019
Glassdoor, 2020 MSCI, 2019

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Document Cloud, and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their
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