Norm Meyrowitz
President, Macromedia Products
Macromedia, Inc.
Norm Meyrowitz is president, Macromedia products. In this capacity, Meyrowitz oversees development and marketing for all Macromedia product divisions. Before that, Meyrowitz headed up the New Business Opportunities effort and Mobile and Device business for Macromedia.
Meyrowitz is a recognized authority on the evolution of web development software and media technology for the Internet. Through his experience at Macromedia, Meyrowitz has overseen the teams creating a vast array of multimedia and web development products, including Director, Shockwave, Dreamweaver, and Macromedia Flash.
Between 1996 and 1999, Meyrowitz served his 'first-term' as president, Macromedia products. Prior to that, he was chief technology officer and general manager of the Internet and multimedia authoring technology business unit. He has also served as senior vice president of engineering, vice president of engineering, and director of strategic technology. In all of these positions, he led the effort at Macromedia toward defining the next generation of multimedia player technology development for personal computers, non-PC devices, and the Internet.
For two years prior to his employment at Macromedia, Meyrowitz served as director of software at GO Corporation, where he managed the groups that develop the graphics, handwriting, application frameworks, system applications, user interface, and international components of the PenPoint operating system.
He also has served various positions at Brown University, including co-director of the university's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), which he co-founded in 1983. Meyrowitz managed and served as the principal architect of IRIS's Intermedia system, a networked, shared, multi-user hypermedia system that was a forerunner to the World Wide Web.
Meyrowitz graduated from Brown University in 1981 with a BS in Computer Science.
