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Keynote Address I:
 Donna Dubinsky
Founder, President and CEO
Handspring
Donna Dubinsky co-founded Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in July 1998 to create a new breed of handheld computers for consumers. As president and CEO of Palm Computing,
Dubinsky helped make the PalmPilot the best-selling handheld computer and the most rapidly adopted new computing product ever produced. When Dubinsky first joined Hawkins at Palm Computing in 1992, shortly after the company was founded, she brought with her more than 10 years of marketing and logistics experience from Apple and Claris. Dubinsky and Hawkins introduced the original PalmPilot in February 1996, a move that revitalized the handheld computing industry.
In addition to her position as CEO of Handspring, Dubinsky currently serves as a director of Intuit Corporation and is a Trustee of the Computer Museum History Center. She earned her B.A. from Yale University and her M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Keynote Address II:
 Beth Sawi
Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Beth Sawi is the Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. She oversees Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Community Affairs, Legal, Compliance, Internal Audit and Corporate Services. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for The Charles Schwab Corporation.
Ms. Sawi is a long-time veteran of Schwab; she started working there in 1982. She became Executive Vice President of Marketing and Advertising in 1992. From there she moved to the position of Executive Vice President of Mutual Funds and President of Charles Schwab Investment Management (1994 -1995). From 1995 - 1997 she was Executive Vice President of Electronic Brokerage, during which time she headed Schwab's Internet launch.
Ms. Sawi took a sabbatical in Italy in 1998-99 during which she wrote her book: Coming Up for Air: How to Build a Balanced Life in a Workaholic World, published by Hyperion in February, 2000.
Before coming to Schwab, she worked at American Express and at Citibank.
Ms. Sawi received a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ms. Sawi currently resides in Berkeley, California with her husband and two children.
The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: SCH), through its principal operating subsidiary Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., provides a broad range of financial and brokerage services to individual investors, independent investment managers and institutions through a multi-channel account access system.
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