• Adobe’s co-founder John Warnock passed away at the age of 82. 

• Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke after meeting as colleagues at Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, sparking the desktop publishing revolution.

• Warnock held a doctorate in electrical engineering, a master in mathematics and a bachelor in mathematics and philosophy, all from the University of Utah.

• His vision and passion enabled Adobe to deliver groundbreaking innovations such as Illustrator, the Portable Document Format (PDF) file format, Photoshop and Premiere Pro, defining the desktop era and unleashing creativity and opportunity for millions of people.

• He has been widely acknowledged as one of the greatest inventors with significant impact on how we communicate in words, images and videos.

• In 2008, President Barack Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation’s highest honours bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors.

• He received the Computer Entrepreneur Award from the IEEE Computer Society, the American Electronics Association Medal of Achievement, and the Marconi Prize for contributions to information science and communications. 

• Warnock retired as CEO in 2000 and he was chairman of the board, a position he shared with Geschke, until 2017. Since then, he continued to serve on the board of directors.

• Geschke died in 2021 at the age of 81.

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