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Kim Karin 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 . 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 {Link without Title} , Polese is CEO of SpikeSource , a provider of business-ready open source solutions. The company was incubated in 2003 at VC firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers by Ray Lane, and launched its first products in April 2005. Series A and B investors include Intel Capital , co-led by Matthew Fix , and Fidelity Ventures . 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 received a BA degree in Biophysics in 1984 from the University Of California, Berkeley and studied Computer Science at University Of Washington . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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