Adobe CEO Chizen Earned $8.3M in 2007

eparting Adobe Systems Inc. CEO Bruce Chizen received compensation valued at $8.3 million in 2007 and gained another $29.6 million by exercising stock options that year, according to a regulatory filing.Chizen, who served seven years at the helm of one of the world's five largest software companies, received a base salary of $925,000 and $2.3 million in an incentive payout. He received stock and option awards worth $5.1 million and $7,440 in other compensation, which comprised mostly matching contributions to his 401(k).Read here.