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Kim Karin Polese (born November 13, 1961) is a
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entrepreneur and technology executive. She serves as Chairwoman of CrowdSmart Inc., a software products company. Polese serves on the board of the Long-term Stock Exchange and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of California. Until 2015, Polese was a Chairwoman of ClearStreet Inc., a company whose products help employers and their employees reduce their healthcare spend. An advocate of public policy to increase America's innovation capacity, Polese was named to President Obama's Innovation Advisory Board in 2011. The Board guided the Commerce Department's study of US 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". Polese is the recipient of the 2010 National Center for Women & Information Technology Innovator Award. Early in her career, in 1997, she made ''
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'' magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans". In 2018, Polese appeared in the documentary ''Silicon Valley: The Untold Story''.


Education

Polese received a BA degree in
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in 1984 from the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
and studied
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at the
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. 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.


Work history

In addition to serving CrowdSmart as Chairman, Polese is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow and serves on a number of boards, including the
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, TechNet, the
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President's Board on Science and Innovation, UC Berkeley's College of Engineering, the
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, the Public Policy Institute of California and the
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. Polese served on the board of
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, Inc. from 2004 to 2006. She is an advisor and investor in several early-stage technology companies. Previously, Polese served as CEO of SpikeSource Inc., which developed software to automate open source application management. The company was incubated in 2003 at VC firm
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and launched its first products in April 2005. The company was acquired by software company Black Duck in November 2010. Prior to SpikeSource, Polese co-founded Marimba Inc., an Internet-based software management pioneer. She served as President and CEO until 2000, leading Marimba to profitability. She was Chairman from 2000 to 2004, when Marimba was sold to BMC Software for $239M. Before co-founding Marimba, Polese spent more than seven years with Sun Microsystems and was the founding product manager for
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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 Inc., helping Fortune 500 companies apply artificial intelligence to solving complex business challenges.


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Kim Polese speaks at Stanford University

Kim Polese speaks at the University of California

Kim Polese interview by InformIT





Kim Polese interview by David Berlind from ZDNet as Spikesource came out of beta

Kim Polese interview by David Berlind from ZDNet






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