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Jon Rubinstein Quits HP
Jon Rubinstein – the senior vice president for Product Innovation at HP’s Personal Systems Group, has decided to part ways with the company, according to a new revelation.
Rubinstein, who had been Palm’s CEO earlier, joined Hewlett Packard as it acquired the WebOS maker in July 2010. As disclosed by a HP spokeswoman, Rubinstein decided to resign after finishing his one-to two-year employment commitment to the company, and currently has no plans to join any other company.
Earlier in his carrier, Rubinstein also worked in Apple as an executive and contributed immensely to the company’s flagship products such as iPod and iMac under Steve Job’s leadership. He later joined Palm Inc. in 2007, and was heading the company’s engineering, research and development works.
Rubinstein, during his 19 months stay at HP, saw HP’s leadership change four times. And, there was this bumpy ride of having to part with Palm and having it changed to WebOS; WebOS not doing so well and finally being open sourced. It seems that Rubinstein has had enough of all this. "I’m going to take a break", he told AllThingsD."I’m going to spend some time with my family and think about what to do next", he added further
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