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Adobe Appoints Solectron's Mike Cannon to its Board of Directors
December 10, 2003 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
San Jose, Calif. — Adobe Systems Inc. has appointed Mike Cannon to its Board of Directors.
Cannon is president and CEO of Solectron Corp., an $11 billion global manufacturing and supply chain management services company.
Cannon brings more than 25 years of operations and technology experience to his role as an Adobe board member. Before joining Solectron, he spent six years as president and CEO of Maxtor Corp., a leading global provider of hard disk drives and storage systems. During this time, he drove a significant increase in the company's revenues, built Maxtor into an industry leader and diversified the company's business through a strategy of internal and acquisition-related growth. Prior to Maxtor, Cannon held senior management positions with IBM and Control Data Corp.'s Imprimis Technology spin-off.
Cannon joins the existing members of Adobe's Board of Directors, including John E. Warnock, co-chairman of the board; Charles M. Geschke, co-chairman of the board; Bruce R. Chizen, president and chief executive officer; Carol Mills Baldwin, independent consultant; James E. Daley, retired, executive vice president, Electronic Data Systems Corp.; Colleen M. Pouliot, attorney; Robert Sedgewick, professor of Computer Science, Princeton University; and Delbert Yocam, independent consultant.
Cannon studied mechanical engineering at Michigan State University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He will begin serving on Adobe's board in December 2003.