Charles Geschke was an American businessman who co-founded Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982 after the two left Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where they had worked together on page-description language research that became the basis for Adobe's PostScript technology and later the PDF document format. He served as Adobe's president and later co-chairman, helping build it into one of the dominant companies in desktop publishing and digital document software. In 1992 he was kidnapped and held for four days before being rescued by the FBI, an episode he later spoke about publicly; he retired from Adobe's board in 2017 and died in 2021.
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Defining ContributionCo-founded Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982 and co-created the PDF document format 1 Notable Work Connections
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Companies Founded
Charles Geschke co-founded Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982.
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Geschke served as Adobe's president and chief operating officer from its 1982 founding, later as co-chairman with John Warnock.
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1. Charles Geschke - Wikipedia
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September 11, 1939
Infobox, Birthplace
Cleveland, Ohio
Infobox, Died date
April 16, 2021
Infobox, Death place
Los Altos, California
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American businessman and computer scientist
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best known for founding the graphics and publishing software company Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982, with whom he also co-created the PDF document format
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