Technology >> CEO Interviews >> September 12, 2001

Donna Dubinsky – Handspring Inc (hand)

DONNA DUBINSKY co-founded Handspring, Inc., with Jeff Hawkins in July 1998 to create a new breed of handheld computers for consumers. As President and CEO of Palm Computing, Ms. Dubinsky helped make the PalmPilot the best-selling handheld computer and the most rapidly adopted new computing product ever produced. When Ms. Dubinsky first joined Mr. Hawkins at Palm Computing in 1992, shortly after the company was founded, she brought with her more than 10 years of marketing and logistics experience from Apple and Claris. Ms. Dubinsky and Mr. Hawkins introduced the original PalmPilot in February 1996, a move that revitalized the handheld computing industry. In addition to her position as CEO of Handspring, she currently serves as a Director of Intuit Corporation and is a Trustee of the Computer Museum History Center. She earned her BA from Yale University and her MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Profile
TWST: Can we start out with a quick history and an overview of

Handspring, Inc.?

Ms. Dubinsky: Handspring was founded in July 1998 by Jeff Hawkins, Ed

Colligan and myself, to create a great