Background
Polese, Kim Karin was born on November 13, 1961.
chairman executive president Chief Executive Officer
Polese, Kim Karin was born on November 13, 1961.
Polese received a Bachelor degree in biophysics in 1984 from the and studied computer science at the University of Washington. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Business and Economics from California State University in 2011. She is a fellow at Carnegie Mellon University"s Center for Engineered Innovation.
Mississippi Polese is also an advocate of public policy to increase America"s innovation capacity. In 2011 she was named to President Obama"s Innovation Advisory Board which guided the Commerce Department"s study of United States economic competitiveness, delivering a report with recommendations to Congress in January 2012. In May 2012, Polese was named to the San Francisco Business Journal"s list of "Most Influential Women".
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Polese is the recipient of the 2010 National Center for Women & Information Technology Innovator Award. Early in her career, in 1997, she made Time Magazine"s list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans". In addition to serving ClearStreet as Chairman, Polese is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow and serves on a number of boards, including the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, TechNet, the University of California President"s Board on Science and Innovation, University of California Berkeley"s College of Engineering, the Long Now Foundation, the Public Policy Institute of California and the Global Security Institute.
Polese served on the board of Technorati, Incorporated. from 2004 to 2006.
She is an advisor and investor in several early stage technology companies. Previously, Polese served as Chief Executive Officer of SpikeSource Incorporated., which developed software to automate open source application management.
The company was incubated in 2003 at Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and launched its first products in April 2005. The company was acquired by software company Black Duck in November 2010.
Prior to SpikeSource, Mississippi
Polese co-founded Marimba Incorporated., an Internet-based software management pioneer. She served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 2000, leading Marimba to profitability. She was Chairman from 2000 - 2004, when Marimba was sold to Business Service Management for $239M. Before co-founding Marimba, Polese spent more than seven years with Sun Microsystems and was the founding product manager for Java when it launched in 1995.
She also influenced the transition of its internal name of "Oak" to "Java".
Prior to joining Sun, Polese worked on expert systems at IntelliCorp Incorporated., helping Fortune 500 companies apply artificial intelligence to solving complex business challenges.
Board directors Do Something, Global Security Institute, Long Now Foundation, University California President's Board Science and Innovation, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Advisory Council. Member of Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group.