Bud Colligan

John C. Bud Colligan, born on 14 August 1954 in Los Angeles, is an American software executive, venture investor and community builder. After a degree in international economics from Georgetown University in 1976 and an MBA from Stanford in 1983, he joined Apple that year on the team that launched the Macintosh and later headed its higher-education marketing group. In 1989 he became chief executive of the learning software maker Authorware, and in 1992 he co-founded Macromedia through the merger of Authorware and MacroMind-Paracomp. He was its chief executive until 1997, took it public on NASDAQ in December 1993 and chaired the board until July 1998, by which time revenues exceeded 100 million dollars. He was a partner at Accel Partners from 1998 to 2015, co-founded Pacific Community Ventures and the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, and in 2019 became California senior adviser for international affairs and trade.