Donna Dubinsky

Donna Dubinsky
Born1955 (age 68–69)
Alma materYale University
Harvard Business School
OccupationBusinessperson
Known forCEO of Palm and Handspring and Numenta
SpouseLen Shustek[1]

Donna Dubinsky is an American businesswoman who played a role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs), as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995.[2] Dubinsky co-founded Numenta in 2005 with Hawkins and Dileep George, based in Redwood City, CA. Numenta was founded to develop machine intelligence based on the principles of the neocortex. Dubinsky is chair of Numenta.[3][4] Dubinsky is also on the board of Twilio (NYSE: TWLO). She was on the board of Yale University from 2006–2018, including two years as senior trustee.

Fortune nominated her, together with Hawkins, to the Innovators Hall of Fame, while Time named the pair as part of its Digital 50 in 1999 for their contribution to the development of the PDA.

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