Palm, Inc. has announced that its board of directors has appointed Jon Rubinstein to lead the company as chairman and CEO upon the departure of Ed Colligan, who is stepping down after sixteen years of leadership at the company.
Rubinstein, who joined Palm as executive chairman in October 2007 to help bring innovation back to the company, assumes his role as CEO on June 12. Colligan plans to take some time off, then join Elevation Partners, says Palm.
“With Palm webOS we have ten-plus years of innovation ahead of us, and the Palm Pre is already one of the year’s hottest new products. Due in no small part to Ed’s courageous leadership, we’re in great shape to get Palm back to continuous growth, and we plan to keep the trajectory going upward,” says Rubinstein.
The Palm Pre phone, which is available since June 6, is coming with a price tag of $199.99. Running on the new Palm webOS mobile platform, Pre promises to bring together your information from where it resides – on your phone, at your work, or on the web – into one logical view. (Read: Sprint to Offer Palm Pre)
Palm is a leading mobile products company. Its products include Palm Treo, Pre, and Centro phones.
