# Shantanu Narayen

> Shantanu Narayen is chair and Chief Executive Officer at Adobe; executive chair from 1 December 2026. Adobe Acrobat Sign, Adobe Commerce (Magento), Adobe Firefly API, Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API and Adobe Photoshop API on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Adobe; executive chair from 1 December 2026.

Shantanu Narayen has been Adobe's chief executive for eighteen years and chairs its board. Adobe announced in September 2026 that he will move to executive chair on 1 December 2026, when Anil Chakravarthy becomes president and chief executive.

## What Shantanu builds

- [Adobe Acrobat Sign](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.md), graded D, 52.7/100, in Contracts, proposals & e-signatures. Adobe Acrobat Sign is an e-signature service. Its REST API v6 creates agreements from uploaded files or library templates, sends them for signature, returns signing URLs and audit trails, and reports status through webhooks. Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Adobe; executive chair from 1 December 2026, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Adobe Commerce (Magento)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.md), graded B, 63.9/100, in Commerce & checkout. Commerce platform from Adobe, built on the open-source Magento core. It runs as Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service, on Adobe's cloud infrastructure or on the merchant's own servers, and agents reach a store through its REST and GraphQL APIs. Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Adobe; executive chair from 1 December 2026, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Adobe Firefly API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-firefly.md), graded D, 49/100, in Image generation. Adobe's Firefly image models (Image 3, Image 4 Standard and Ultra, Image 5) as async REST endpoints within Firefly Services. Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Adobe; executive chair from 1 December 2026, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-pdf-extract.md), graded C, 55.9/100, in Document parsing & extraction. Adobe's REST API for reading and changing PDFs. Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Adobe; executive chair from 1 December 2026, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Adobe Photoshop API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-photoshop-api.md), graded E, 44/100, in Programmatic asset production. Photoshop as an async REST service inside Firefly Services. Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Adobe; executive chair from 1 December 2026, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Anil Chakravarthy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anil-chakravarthy/), President, Customer Experience Orchestration and worldwide field operations, Adobe; president and CEO from 1 December 2026
- [Charles Geschke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-geschke/), Co-founder, Adobe
- [David Wadhwani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-wadhwani/), President, Creativity and Productivity Business, Adobe
- [John Warnock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-warnock/), Co-founder, Adobe
- [Marcel Boucher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marcel-boucher/), Director, FFE Solution Acceleration (Adobe Summit 2025)

## Questions

### Who is Shantanu Narayen?

Shantanu Narayen has been Adobe's chief executive for eighteen years and chairs its board. Adobe announced in September 2026 that he will move to executive chair on 1 December 2026, when Anil Chakravarthy becomes president and chief executive.

### What does Adobe make?

Anchor Terminal lists Adobe Acrobat Sign, Adobe Commerce (Magento), Adobe Firefly API, Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API and Adobe Photoshop API from Adobe. Adobe Acrobat Sign is an e-signature service. Its REST API v6 creates agreements from uploaded files or library templates, sends them for signature, returns signing URLs and audit trails, and reports status through webhooks.

### How are Shantanu's tools graded?

Adobe Acrobat Sign is graded D, 52.7 out of 100; Adobe Commerce (Magento) is graded B, 63.9 out of 100; Adobe Firefly API is graded D, 49 out of 100; Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API is graded C, 55.9 out of 100; Adobe Photoshop API is graded E, 44 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://developer.adobe.com/acrobat-sign/
- https://developer.adobe.com/developer-support
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke
- https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/webapi/
- https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/
- https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/contributor/community/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=site.adobe.com+%22Firefly+API%22+%22product%22+manager
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophershifflett
- https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe.html
- https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/guides/support/
- https://airtable.com/appu5RTWgdM95jynx/pagyuT1qspNJcPU2E/form
- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/
- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/faq/tech-support/
- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/pdf-extract-api/
- https://business.adobe.com/summit/2025/sessions/scale-creative-asset-pipeline-with-generative-ai-s604.html
- https://ca.linkedin.com/in/marcelboucher
- https://www.adobe.com
- https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/photoshop/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Inc.

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