Former Adobe CEO, Chizen, joins Voyager Capital

Voyager Capital has brought Bruce Chizen, former chief executive officer of Adobe Systems, on board as a venture partner. A long-time member of the Menlo Park, Calif. firm’s advisory board, he will be focusing his efforts on digital media and software opportunities.

Chizen is a prestigious figure in Silicon Valley, having turned Adobe from just another software company into the choice for default design and drafting software it is today. During his tenure, he tripled the company’s revenue, opened up a new enterprise market, and ventured into open source offerings. He will no doubt bring valuable contacts to Voyager, which invests almost exclusively in digital media, software and wireless companies located on the West Coast. It has offices located in the Bay Area, Portland, Ore. and Seattle.

Voyager currently supports 32 portfolio companies, including location-based advertising firm PlaceCast, data analytics provider Ground Truth, web video advertising creator Keystream, web annotation service Trailfire, and travel booking site Yapta. Chizen says he will join the board of several existing portfolio to get his feet wet before launching investments of his own.

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