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Adobe appoints Scott Belsky chief product officer, Creative Cloud

By TechTaffy Desk

Adobe has appointed Scott Belsky as chief product officer and executive vice president, Creative Cloud. In this new role, Mr. Belsky will lead product management and engineering for Adobe Creative Cloud products and services, Adobe Spark and Behance, said the company in a statement. He will also oversee the Adobe team focusing on experience design across Adobe products.

Mr. Belsky will report to Adobe president and CEO Shantanu Narayen. He will also work with Bryan Lamkin, executive vice president and general manager, Digital Media, says Adobe. Mr. Lamkin will continue to lead business strategy and go-to-market for both Creative Cloud and Document Cloud.

Mr. Belsky previously served as Adobe’s vice president of products, leading the Creative Cloud mobile product strategy. He joined the company in 2012 through the acquisition of Behance, a platform he co-founded in 2006.

Prior to Adobe, Mr. Belsky was a venture investor at Benchmark. He serves on the advisory board of Cornell University’s Entrepreneurship Program, is a member of the board of trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and serves on the boards of Prefer, a referral network for independent professionals, and Cheddar, a next-generation live and on-demand video news network. He is also the author of the  book “Making Ideas Happen.”

Mr. Belsky attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

[Image courtesy: Adobe]

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