CTO-ville: From Adobe to Apple

Illinois Graphics Guy Hits Big at Apple (Cloud Computing Could be Brewing)

• Kevin Lynch, Adobe's Chief Technology Officer for five years, is moving to become vice president of Technology at Apple.  Well done Kevin, and hope you can leverage your Adobe technology experience to improve products at Apple!

Kevin studied Interactive Computer Graphics at the University of Illinois. Some of his influences can be read from his web page, including American electrical engineer's Vannevar Bush visionary article of 1945.

Steve Jobs was known for criticising Adobe Flash. Adobe's most recent quarter bagged $1bn in revenues. Now the time has come for those from Adobe to come to Apple.

The wider world of CTOs

What about other companies with a technology-driven culture? Take behemoth Microsoft.

• Eric Rudder is Microsoft's CTO/CSO (Chief Technical/Strategy officer) 

Eric has management responsibility over Microsoft Research. He's a graduate of Brown University (Rhode Island, East of Connecticut). He was the architect of Visual FoxPro 3.0 and has also managed developer outreach at Microsoft.

The CTO World Congress is one way to network with CTOs.