Rob Burgess is a Canadian businessman in the computing industry.

Burgess graduated from McMaster University

McMaster University

McMaster University is a public research university whose main campus is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens...

 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1979.
He worked extensively in the field of high-performance computer graphics, spending years in key executive posts at Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics, Inc. was a manufacturer of high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and software, founded in 1981 by Jim Clark...

, and as CEO of Alias Research.

From 1996, Rob Burgess was CEO of Macromedia

Macromedia

Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia...

 until 2005. He also served as Board Chairman 1998-2005 a position he held when the company was acquired by Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...

 for $3.4 billion in a transaction which closed on December 5, 2005. Under Burgess' tenure, he led the company's transformation from a CD-ROM

CD-ROM

A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....

 based multimedia company to a prominent market position in web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

 authoring and development solutions. While he was chairman and CEO, the vector animation product Flash

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...

 become a pervasive multimedia platform, available on 98% of browsers

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

worldwide.

Rob Burgess is currently sits on the Board of Directors of Real Matters Inc., - a Canadian Technology Company that focuses on real estate data and valuations.