Kim Karin Polese (born November 13, 1961) is CEO of SpikeSource, and was one of the most prominent Silicon Valley executives during the dot-com era. In 1997, she made Time Magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans".
She received a BA degree in biophysics in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley and studied Computer Science at the University of Washington.
Polese is a fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Enginee...
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Kim Karin Polese (born November 13, 1961) is CEO of SpikeSource, and was one of the most prominent Silicon Valley executives during the dot-com era. In 1997, she made Time Magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans".
She received a BA degree in biophysics in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley and studied Computer Science at the University of Washington.
Polese is a fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Engineered Innovation.
After a stint at Intellicorp, Ms. Polese spent more than seven years with Sun Microsystems, where she was the original Java product manager who influenced the transition of its internal name of "Oak" to "Java" .
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 to BMC Software for $239 million in 2004.
Since September 2004, Polese has been CEO of SpikeSource, a...
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