Kim Polese
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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.[1] 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.[2]
In May 2012, Polese was named to the San Francisco Business Journal's list of "Most Influential Women".[3] Polese is the recipient of the 2010 National Center for Women & Information Technology Innovator Award.[4][5] Early in her career, in 1997, she made Time magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans".[6] In 2018, Polese appeared in the documentary Silicon Valley: The Untold Story.[7]
Polese received a 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.
