Ely Greenfield

As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Adobe’s Digital Media business, Ely Greenfield oversees the company’s technology strategy, bringing a fresh vision to initiatives across the company’s largest business unit. In this role, he works with the Creative Cloud and Document Cloud leadership teams to leverage the latest waves of disruptive technologies. His team also works across Digital Media to ensure engineering teams have the tools, processes, and perspective to drive breakthrough innovations.

Greenfield also oversees Adobe Research and its focus on the core areas of world-class innovation, creative design tools and document and customer intelligence. Most recently, Adobe Research has taken on an expanded and unified charter for artificial intelligence research and immersive media.

Previously, Greenfield was CTO of AppDynamics, where he led the engineering and operations teams responsible for delivering a highly scalable system that monitored some of the world’s most complex digital application and business environments. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Greenfield spent 20 years at Adobe and Macromedia where he did everything from write code to build products to incubate new businesses, including what is now Adobe Express.

Greenfield holds a computer science degree from Brown University.