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Adobe India MD Naresh Gupta Decided To Leave the company In March

Adobe India MD Naresh Gupta has decided to leave the company after 19 years, to start a venture of his own.

Adobe said that Gupta will be leaving at the end of March. The company yet to announce the successor to Gupta in India.

Adobe_MD_NareshAdobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said, โ€œNaresh Gupta has played a key role in shaping Adobeโ€™s technology and global business strategy and has built a world-class R&D operation in India.โ€

The R&D operation in India comprises more than 3,000 employees across two sites, Bengaluru and Noida, and contributes to engineering across all of Adobeโ€™s businesses.

Following Guptaโ€™s transition, the Print and Publishing business unit will report to Adobeโ€™s executive vice president of field operations, Matt Thompson. Other local product teams will report directly into their respective Adobe business units.

Gupta said, โ€œLeaving Adobe has been the toughest decision of my life; the company is growing and is going through the strongest period Iโ€™ve seen in my career here. However, I am excited to pursue my passion for entrepreneurship in financial markets.โ€

Narayen said India remained a very strategic innovation site. โ€œWe will unveil new research facilities in both Noida and Bengaluru this spring to support our future growth,โ€ he said.

Gupta joined Adobe in 1996 and founded Adobeโ€™s R&D operation in India in 1997, originally in Noida and later adding Bangalore through Adobeโ€™s acquisition of Macromedia in 2005. In addition to his leadership of the India R&D operation, he has led Adobeโ€™s Print and Publishing business unit, overseeing product marketing and development for Adobeโ€™s print, Web publishing and eLearning tools such as Adobe eLearning Suite and Adobe Technical Communication Suite software.