Technology >> CEO Interviews >> September 12, 2001
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
Handspring, Inc.?
Ms. Dubinsky: Handspring was founded in July 1998 by Jeff Hawkins, Ed
Colligan and myself, to create a great
