- Kim Polese
Kim Karin Polese (born
November 13 ,1961 ) isCEO ofSpikeSource , and was one of the most prominentSilicon Valley executives during thedot-com era . In 1997, she madeTime Magazine 's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans". [cite news| title=Time's 25 Most Influential Americans | work=Time Magazine | publisher = Time Inc. | issue=url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986206-10,00.html | accessdate=2007-12-21 | date=1997-04-21]Education
She received a BA degree in
biophysics in 1984 from theUniversity of California, Berkeley and studiedComputer Science at theUniversity of Washington .Polese is a fellow at
Carnegie Mellon University 's Center for Engineered Innovation.Work History
After a stint at Intellicorp, Ms. Polese spent more than seven years with
Sun Microsystems where she was the Java product manager and gave Javacite web|url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/06/HNkimpolese_1.html |date=2004-10-06|title=Kim Polese returns as head of SpikeSource|author=Mike McMillan|publisher=InfoWorld ] its name. After leaving Sun in 1996 she co-founded Marimba, a Java-based business, where she served as CEO until 2000, leading Marimba through its public offering in 1999 and bringing it to profitability before selling it toBMC Software for $239 million [cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/c/a/2004/04/30/BUG4O6DASP1.DTL|title=BMC to purchase Marimba for $239 million|date=2004-04-30|author=Benjamin Pimentel|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle ] in 2004.Since September 2004 [http://www.spikesource.com/newsevents/090104.html] , Polese has been CEO of
SpikeSource , a provider of business-ready open source solutions. The company was incubated in 2003 at VC firmKleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers by Ray Lane, and launched its first products in April 2005. Series A and B investors includeIntel Capital , andFidelity Ventures and theOmidyar Network among others.Polese serves on the board of the
Global Security Institute , theLong Now Foundation and theUniversity of California President's Board on Science and Innovation. She also serves on the executive council ofTechNet , a bipartisan network of executives that promotes the growth of the technology economy and theSilicon Valley Leadership Group .Polese served on the board of
Technorati , Inc. from 2004 to 2006.References
External links
* [http://www.spikesource.com/company/management.html SpikeSource Management Team]
* [http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=203 Kim Polese speaks at Stanford University]
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