Donna Dubinsky is an American business leader who played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants serving as CEO of Palm, Inc and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995.
10 Facts About Donna Dubinsky
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Donna Dubinsky currently serves as CEO and board chair of Numenta.
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Donna Dubinsky grew up in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where her father, Alfred Donna Dubinsky, worked as a scrap-metal broker.
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Donna Dubinsky later attended Yale University where, as a student in Jonathan Edwards College, she majored in history and earned her bachelor's degree in 1977.
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Donna Dubinsky then worked for the Philadelphia National Bank before obtaining an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981.
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However, Donna Dubinsky decided to leave in 1991, when Apple did not allow Claris to become an independent company.
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The bursting of the dot-com bubble took its toll and Donna Dubinsky lost her place on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list in 2001.
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On September 27,2007, Donna Dubinsky was conferred the Harvard Business School's highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, by Dean Jay O Light.
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Donna Dubinsky was a trustee of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
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Donna Dubinsky is involved in philanthropy, and has written an op-ed in support of Obamacare.