Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Moving to Apple

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company to take a job at Apple. The news was leaked in an SEC filing and confirmed by Adobe.

Lynch joined Adobe in 2005 as part of its acquisition of Macromedia. At Macromedia, he helped create Dreamweaver and other web technology tools. More recently at Adobe, Lynch has overseen the company's push into more subscription software territory with the Adobe Creative Cloud and the Adobe Marketing Cloud.

Tech followers might be most familiar with Lynch as one of Adobe's more public figures — he frequently engaged with the community via blog postings — and a vociferous defender of Flash at the height of Apple and Adobe's "war" over the format's worthiness for the web.