Bryan O'Neil Hughes

Bryan O'Neil Hughes is a renowned Director of Product Management & Partner Outreach at Adobe, who has played a key role in developing a portfolio of Creative Cloud applications & services for over two decades. He has been instrumental in driving product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for Adobe's professional desktop and mobile apps, including class-leading mobile products like Adobe Fresco. Besides, he has authored original content for dozens of publications & several original series for Adobe, which have enjoyed over 15M views.

Hughes is a featured keynote speaker at Adobe MAX, Photoshop World, Photo Plus Expo, Photokina, WPPI, and many more events, where he shares his expertise in product management, new product development, agile methodologies, social media, product marketing, product strategy, customer advocacy, user experience, user research, cross-team collaboration, product definition, developer relations, partnerships, extensibility, mobile, iOS, App Store optimization, cloud, SAAS, competitive analysis, consumer software, professional software, feature prioritization & planning.

Prior to joining Adobe, Hughes was a professional photographer and retoucher. He is passionate about partnerships and is a champion of many collaborative efforts both within and beyond Adobe. Hughes is one of Adobe's primary spokespeople, representing the company across creative segments & platforms.

Hughes has studied at Carmel High School and earned a BS in Information Systems Management from the University of San Francisco. He continues to license imagery professionally and is also a driving instructor for the BMW Car Club of America.