Adobe appoints Abhay Parasnis as CTO

Adobe has appointed Abhay Parasnis as chief technology officer (CTO) and senior vice president of platform technology and services — to boost cloud business.

The main role of Parasnis will be to drive Adobe’s technology strategy, architecture and innovation roadmap for its cloud services across the globe.

Recently, Adobe has moved its business to a cloud- and services-based model – including its flagship offerings Creative Cloud, Adobe Marketing Cloud. The company also recently announced the Adobe Document Cloud offering a more integrated and scalable architecture.

Most recently, Parasnis was president and chief operating officer of enterprise mobility provider Kony. He previously worked with technology companies including Microsoft, i2, Oracle and IBM.

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