Kim Polese

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{{Short description|American entrepreneur and technology executive}}
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[[Image:Kim Polese, Spikesource.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Kim Polese, CEO SpikeSource, 2006]]

'''Kimberly Karin Polese''' (born November 13, 1961) is a [[Silicon Valley]] 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ltse.com/blog/long-term-stock-exchange-announces-board-of-directors/|title=Long-Term Stock Exchange announces its board of directors|website=www.ltse.com|date=2020-08-07|access-date=2021-07-24}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2012/january/competes_010511_0.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-11-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016184807/http://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2012/january/competes_010511_0.pdf |archive-date=2012-10-16 }}</ref>

In May 2012, Polese was named to the ''[[San Francisco Business Journal]]''{{'}}s list of "Most Influential Women".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/influential-women-2012.html | title=Most influential Bay Area women 2012 honorees}}</ref> Polese is the recipient of the 2010 [[National Center for Women & Information Technology]] Innovator Award.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncwit.org/news/kim-polese-wins-symons-innovator-award |title=KIM POLESE WINS SYMONS INNOVATOR AWARD | National Center for Women & Information Technology |access-date=2012-11-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219232629/http://www.ncwit.org/news/kim-polese-wins-symons-innovator-award |archive-date=2013-12-19 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.ncwit.org/work.awards.innovator.html Symons Innovator Award]</ref> Early in her career, in 1997, she made ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans".<ref>{{cite magazine | title=Time's 25 Most Influential Americans | magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986206-2,00.html | access-date=2010-05-24 | date=1997-04-21 | archive-date=May 15, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100515112502/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986206-2,00.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2018, Polese appeared in the documentary ''Silicon Valley: The Untold Story''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/03/19/locally-produced-documentary-on-silicon-valley-premieres|title=Locally produced documentary on Silicon Valley premieres|publisher=Palo Alto Online|date=2018-03-19|last=Bradshaw|first=Kate|access-date=2021-07-24}}</ref>

==Education==
Polese received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] degree in [[biophysics]] in 1984 from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] 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.

==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 [[Silicon Valley Leadership Group]], TechNet, the [[University of California]] President's Board on Science and Innovation, UC 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]], 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.<ref>[http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1565 "Twenty Years of Experience in Developing Software in Silicon Valley"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211052411/http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1565 |date=December 11, 2015 }}, Kim Polese lecture to Stanford University engineering entrepreneurship students, 2005.11.09</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spikesource.com/newsevents/090104.html |title=SpikeSource - Press Releases |access-date=2006-10-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229213748/http://www.spikesource.com/newsevents/090104.html |archive-date=2006-12-29 }}</ref> The company was incubated in 2003 at VC 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, 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.<ref>{{cite news |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 |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |access-date=July 19, 2008 |archive-date=February 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110211131800/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/c/a/2004/04/30/BUG4O6DASP1.DTL |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Before co-founding Marimba, Polese spent more than seven years with [[Sun Microsystems]] and was the founding product manager for [[Java (programming language)|Java]] when it launched in 1995. She also influenced the transition of its internal name of "Oak" to "Java".<ref name="McMillan_2004_10_06">{{cite 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 |work=[[InfoWorld]]}}</ref>

Prior to joining Sun, Polese worked on expert systems at IntelliCorp Inc., helping Fortune 500 companies apply artificial intelligence to solving complex business challenges.

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=203 Kim Polese speaks at Stanford University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629032224/http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=203 |date=June 29, 2008 }}
* [http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?seriesid=531f1bac-42fe-4913-b187-3c9dd612b194 Kim Polese speaks at the University of California]
* [http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=f2d61b90-109f-4474-9f35-7d69e55f7015 Kim Polese interview by InformIT]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100325094239/http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-178988.html Kim Polese interview by ZDNet]
* [http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail640.html Kim Polese presentation at O'Reilly Media's OSCON 2005]
* [https://archive.today/20130210160105/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1193&tag=col1;post-570 Kim Polese interview by David Berlind from ZDNet as Spikesource came out of beta]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070624075924/http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=570 Kim Polese interview by David Berlind from ZDNet]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121016184807/http://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2012/january/competes_010511_0.pdf]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131219232629/http://www.ncwit.org/news/kim-polese-wins-symons-innovator-award]
* [http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/influential-women-2012.html]

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