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Adobe appoints Chris Skelton as managing director

Adobe has appointed Chris Skelton as managing director for Australia and New Zealand.

The announcement:

Adobe has appointed Chris Skelton as Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand. Skelton will report to Paul Robson, President of the company’s Asia Pacific operations. Skelton has been leading Adobe’s Digital Media business across Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia and Korea since 2012.

“I’m delighted to appoint Chris to lead Adobe’s business in Australia and New Zealand. He has made a significant impact over the past two years and I look forward to working with him to continue to grow Adobe’s operations in Australia and New Zealand,” said Paul Robson, Adobe President for Asia Pacific.

“I’m excited to lead Adobe’s business in Australia and New Zealand,” said Skelton. “Adobe’s Creative Cloud and Marketing Cloud businesses are now world-leading and I look forward to working with our partners and customers as they embark on their own journeys of digital transformation with Adobe.

“Adobe has invested heavily in Australia and New Zealand over the past three years. We have doubled our staff numbers in that time, we’ve established a Centre of Excellence in Sydney to drive enterprise sales across Asia, and we’re also a pilot region to test new innovation for the company globally. I look forward to working with the team to continue to drive momentum across this important region.”

Skelton joined Adobe in 2012 as Head of Digital Media for Australia and New Zealand, where he worked to build out new markets and verticals in the Digital Media business and ensure existing target industries continue to grow their adoption of Adobe products.

Before joining Adobe, Skelton was the Regional Director in Australia and New Zealand for Insight, one of the largest resellers of software and hardware globally. He has over 20 years’ experience working in senior positions for global organisations including Insight, SAP and Cisco Systems.

Skelton will continue to be based in Adobe’s Sydney headquarters.

Source: Edelman Australia media release

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