Shantanu Narayen (Creative Software / SaaS) at Adobe — San Jose, United States

Shantanu Narayen has been CEO of Adobe since 2007, overseeing one of the most successful transitions from packaged software to cloud subscriptions in enterprise history. Adobe Creative Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Document Cloud together serve hundreds of millions of users. He navigated the controversial $20 billion attempted acquisition of Figma, which was blocked by regulators. Narayen is widely respected as a thoughtful, customer-focused technology executive.