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Maxon’s founders and serving MDs retire

Jul 04, 2018 by CGPress Staff
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Maxon has announced its three founders and serving managing directors Uwe Bärtels, Harald Egel and Harald Schneider are retiring after 32 years, but will stay available in an advisory capacity. In their place David McGavran will be appointed as the new CEO, having worked for over 20 years at Adobe, most recently as its Director of Engineering – Professional Audio and Video. Read the full press release on Maxon’s website.

 

 

 

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Ehm
7 years ago

It will be interesting to see whether there is going to be any difference between a company led by German founders or led by an US CEO

Igor Posavec
Reply to  Ehm
7 years ago

Let me be a prophet for a moment: monthly subscribtion.

Marcin
Reply to  Igor Posavec
7 years ago

Ouch

Stephen Green
Reply to  Marcin
7 years ago

Possibly, I hope not (or at least not the only option) – I was planning on buying C4D this year and am going to hold off until the dust settles.

Technomancer
Reply to  Stephen Green
7 years ago

after the ADSK announcement i was shopping for a new package and connected to the some fairly high representatives. they assured me, as did the CEO´s open letter, that maxon is commited to perpetual licenses. on those bases i bought the software.
if this turns out not to be the case i would be royally pissed off.
i could see lawsuits aswell.

Juang3d
Reply to  Technomancer
7 years ago

That is more or less true, if they said a thing to lead people to acquire their software and suddenly they change paths… then… it could be a problem for them, and… MAYBE (it´s a big maybe) David McGavran left Adobe because did not agree with the rental only scheme… will see 🙂

Alberto
7 years ago

Adobe is slowly but surely moving forward here…

So David McGavran worked for over 20 years at Adobe, C4d lite is already part of AE, Greyscale Gorilla started selling models on Adobe Dimension…
This is not an affair any more, a wedding is on the horizon !

It would be quite interesting if C4D became part of the suite.
Autodesk would have to act quickly, Adobe is very very powerful : https://www.statista.com/statistics/272963/revenue-of-adobe-systems-worldwide-by-quarter-since-2009/

steve gilbert
Reply to  Alberto
7 years ago

maxon has a path to carefully navigate..i was looking to add a seat of cinema4d later this year…

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