Another Adobe channel boss exits

Adobe Australia's has bid farewell to its second channel manager in 13 months, with Muralee Kanagaratnam departing.

He has since taken a position as general manager of channel and alliances at Schneider Electric.

His predecessor at Adobe, Steve Martin, departed at the end of 2013 and later took up a role as national channels general manager position at NextDC.

Both men exited Adobe in December. The software vendor's fiscal year ends in November.

Kanagaratnam joined Adobe in April 2013 after more than six years at Express Data, which is now Dicker Data. In July, Adobe Australia dropped Dicker Data as distributor in favour of Ingram Micro.

Kanagaratnam has also had stints at Synnex Australia and Compaq.

Adobe Australia and Kanagaratnam were separately contacted for comment but neither had responded at the time of writing. A Schneider Electric representative confirmed Kanagaratnam's appointment but declined to comment otherwise.

The changes in its channel team comes as the vendor moves from traditional boxed software to a subscription model. The growth of its Creative Cloud product has put pressure on the vendor's own bottom line, as net profit dropped 46 percent last year.

Last year also saw musical chairs for the top regional positions. President of Asia-Pacific Craig Tegel resigned in June, with ANZ managing director Paul Robson moving up into that role. Head of digital media Chris Skelton was then promoted to replace Robson as ANZ boss.