Bruce R. Chizen, the former chief executive of Adobe Systems Inc., has been named to an expanded board of another software company, Oracle Corp.

Chizen, 52, who stepped down as Adobe CEO last year “to take a break” after 14 years at that company, will become the 13th member of an Oracle board that already includes its chief executive, Lawrence J. Ellison.

A blunt-speaking executive known for keeping Adobe’s morale high, Chizen served as CEO for seven years as the company collected record profits.

Adobe’s flagship software products include the widely used Photoshop for photo editing, Flash for Web animation and Acrobat for creating and reading files under its proprietary but ubiquitous Portable Document Format, or PDF.

Oracle makes database and business software and has broadened its product offering to cover nearly all industries and customer types by spending more than $35 billion in the past few years to buy smaller rivals.

Chizen’s “extensive technology industry experience and customer-focused vision will be an asset to Oracle as we move forward with our goal to provide our customers with products and services that will help their businesses grow and prosper,” Oracle Chairman Jeffrey O. Henley said in a statement Thursday.