Kim Polese
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Kim Polese (born November 13, 1961) was president and CEO of Marimba, Inc. until July 2000, and was one of the most prominent Silicon Valley executives during the dot-com era. She still serves on the board of directors of the company. Polese spent more than seven years with Sun Microsystems working as a Java product manager, before embarking on Marimba's Java-based business. Before joining Sun, she worked at IntelliCorp Inc.
As of September 2004, Polese is CEO of SpikeSource, an open source integration and services company that was founded and incubated in 2003 at VC firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers by Ray Lane.
Polese serves on the boards of Technorati, Inc., the Global Security Institute, and the University of California President's Board on Science and Innovation. She also serves on the executive council of TechNet, a bipartisan network of executives that promotes the growth of the technology economy.
Polese is a fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Engineered Innovation.
She has a bachelors degree in biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley.