Rena Lane topic

As senior vice president, human resources, Rena is responsible for all worldwide human resources activities at Palm, including staffing, benefits and compensation and work force development.

She brings more than 15 years' experience providing progressive human-resources leadership to companies during all stages of development and global organizational growth. She joined Palm from WebEx, where she was vice president of human resources.

Previously, Rena was vice president of human resources at MIPS at the time of its spin-out and IPO and was one of the original human resources leaders at SGI during the period of rapid growth when it reached $1 billion in revenue. She also held roles with Exxon Corporation's high-technology merger and acquisitions team.

She received a bachelor's degree in economics from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a master's degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).