the Palm IPO, during which he wore a bespoke suit embroidered with gold pinstripes. Profitable revenue increased five consecutive quarters to over $1 billion as the dot-com bubble collapsed. He left Palm on 8 November 2001 when the OS Group was spun out by the board (leaving Palm a commodity hardware player), and most technology companies were caught up in the dot-com crash, and set up a management consultancy under the name 'Westerham Group'. He led Majesco (a gaming company) for a ten-month period until he discovered the recent sales forecasts for Psychonauts and Advent Rising were dramatically missed in this essentially family-owned business. From June 2001 until February 2003 he was a director of Novell and chairman of the board for CRF Health, then a start-up company focusing on electronic patient diaries for clinical trials. Since July 2003 he has been a non-executive director of Informatica and Chase Corporation. Ambient Devices After Palm, he took up positions on the boards of the Boston College business school and the MIT Sloan School of Management and several technology and consumer product-oriented companies. In 2007, he was appointed CEO of Ambient Devices, a small consumer electronics company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, raising funding, developing more contemporary new products, distribution, and marketing. He was asked to remove himself from the company. Yankowski is a board member of flat-panel color display pioneer Uni-Pixel, Inc. (UNXL), which has developed a potentially more efficient display method called TMOS, as well as non-fingerprint films, and unique embossing technology for touch screens and similar applications. He also represented Intel Capital on the board of Telligent in Dallas, a leading corporate social networking and analytics company. In Media Yankowski is portrayed by English actor Cary Elwes in the 2023 biopic Blackberry directed by Matt Johnson. Notes , AnnOnline (10 January 1997). Retrieved 22 August 2006. Carl Yanowski, CEO, Palm, T. C. Doyle, VARBusiness, (10 November 2000). Retrieved 22 August 2006. - not working , Piloting Palm: The Inside Story of Palm, Handspring and the Birth of the Billion Dollar Handheld Industry. Retrieved 25 Jan 2010. Andrew Orlowski, Shoe salesman quits PDA company, The Register (21 November 2001). Retrieved 22 August 2006. Ex-Palm CEO Carl Yankowski tapped to head Ambient Devices, Engadget, January 2, 2008. Forbes Profile: Carl Yankowski, Forbes. MIT School of Engineering alumni MIT Sloan School of Management alumni American technology chief executives 1948 births Living people General