Executive profiles

As senior vice president of corporate development, Paul Weiskopf leads activities related to Adobe’s strategic planning, alliances, mergers and acquisitions, venture investments and new business initiatives. Weiskopf has held this role since May 2008, when he was promoted from his former role as Adobe’s vice president of corporate development.

Since joining Adobe in 2005, Weiskopf has managed Adobe’s activities in the areas of corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and venture investing, helping Adobe’s product businesses identify market expansion opportunities and evaluate options for building, buying and partnering to deliver the most complete solutions to customers. He played an instrumental role in the $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Inc., as well as a number of smaller acquisitions and venture investments.

From 2000 to 2005, Weiskopf was vice president of strategy and corporate development for Hewlett-Packard. In that position, he led strategic planning and was responsible for acquisition and investing activity for the Enterprise Systems Group. Before HP, Weiskopf served as vice president of strategy and alliances for two e-commerce companies, InsWeb and BenefitPoint, developing and managing over 150 business relationships with companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and ETrade Financial. Prior to that, he worked in strategic consulting for Accenture with a focus on helping clients develop and implement strategy realignments and organization and process improvements, as well as LEK Consulting with a focus on M&A advisory work.

He holds a bachelor's of arts degree in international political economy and master's degree is business administration from University of California at Berkeley.

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