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Looks like Palm is continuing to bolster it's staff lineup, this time poaching from overseas smartphone manufacturer HTC. UK magazine Mobile reports that Paul Ghent, executive director of HTC Europe, has left the company to become sales vice president of Palm's Europe, Middle East and Africa division. This comes at the heels of the launch of the Pre, which simultaneously takes on smartphone giants Apple, HTC, BlackBerry, and Nokia with it's sleek new handset. Ghent has been instrumental in bringing devices such as the Touch and Touch Diamond to market in Europe, with HTC shares in the global market more than doubling in 2008.

While still with HTC, Ghent attributed their success in no small part from moving away from labels associated with Windows Mobile, while building up their own brand identity. And how is HTC Europe handling the switch? Mobile reports that no replacement for Ghent has been announced, rather HTC’s Dave Catt takes on Ghent’s duties in the short term. 

Things are really shaking up. Just recently former Palm CEO Donna Dubinsky had her spot filled by Rajiv Dutta, former executive vice president of eBay. And around the same time, Chuq Von Respach left Apple to work as Developer Community Manager for Palm. Which leads us to the question - with such high anticipation of the Pre, who is next to come over to the ranks of Palm? And if the new device can live up to the hype, competitors may all be trying to get a piece of Palm's talent in return.

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