Jon Rubinstein replaces Ed Colligan as Palm CEO

In some news that just goes to deepen the Apple and Palm employee mix, Jon Rubinstein has recently been appointed as CEO of Palm. Rubinstein, who was the General Manager of the iPod division at Apple from February 1997 through April 2006 has replaced Ed Colligan, who had held the CEO position for the previous 16 years. While the announcement has been made official, it should be noted that Rubinstein will not officially take over as CEO until June 12.

Of course, while Rubinstein is stepping up to CEO that does not mean Colligan will be leaving Palm entirely. Instead he will be joining Roger McNamee at Elevation Partners. Thankfully, it can be said that Colligan is stepping out while on a high note, which is nice, because the initial success of the Pre seems to have pushed any remaining thoughts of the Foleo out of people’s minds.

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