Nitro seeks and finds a new chairman

Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 18:23

IT People - People

Nitro PDF Software has announced the appointment of Seek co-founder Matt Rockman as its chairman.

"Matt has proven experience moving a company through the challenges that come with huge growth and at this stage in our development, that's invaluable. Having someone of Matt's calibre on board is a real coup," said Nitro CEO Sam Chandler.

Rockman was a co-founder of online employment service Seek, but has not held an official corporate engagement since 2006.

"I was first exposed to Nitro through a 2007 capital raising and since then, I've watched the company more than triple in size, expand internationally and assemble a formidable management team," said Rockman.

"Every entrepreneur enjoys a challenge and taking on a market behemoth like Adobe is exactly that. I firmly believe that Nitro has the product, brand, and operational capability to transform the PDF software market on a global scale," he added.

Nitro moved its head office from Melbourne to San Francisco last year.

The company's flagship product is an alternative to Adobe Acrobat for producing and using PDF files.