Donna Dubinsky is an American businesswoman who played a role in the development of personal digital assistants, as CEO of Palm, Inc and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995.
12 Facts About Donna Dubinsky
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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.
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In 2022, Donna Dubinsky joined the United States Department of Commerce at the request of Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to be the first person focused on implementing the CHIPS and Science Act, which was passed into law about three months after she joined.
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Donna Dubinsky then turned her attention to help create the National Semiconductor Technology Center enabled through the legislation.
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In late 2023, Donna Dubinsky left the Department of Commerce to become a trustee of Natcast, the purpose-built, non-profit entity created to operate the NSTC.