page_title: Kim Polese
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caption_attribution_description: Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource, a provider of business-ready open source solutions.
context_page_description: Kim Karin Polese is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technology executive. She serves as Chairwoman of CrowdSmart Inc., a technology-based seed stage investment company.
  Polese is also Chairwoman of ClearStreet Inc., a company whose products and tools 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 Time Magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans".
context_section_description: Kim Karin Polese (born November 13, 1961) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technology executive. She  serves as Chairwoman of CrowdSmart Inc., a technology-based seed stage investment company.
  Polese is also Chairwoman of ClearStreet Inc., a company whose products and tools 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 Time Magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans".
caption: Kim Polese, CEO SpikeSource, 2006
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