Kim Jones
Kim Jones is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Curriki, a non-profit focused on improving education through technology for children. Previously, Kim was an executive with Sun Microsystems for over 20 years. Prior to her role as President and Managing Director for Sun UK & Ireland, she was Vice President of Global Education, Government and Healthcare, providing advanced technologies and services to key constituencies in the public sector, and establishing education as an independent line of business for Sun. During her leadership, Curriki was incubated in the education development community of Java.net, better known as the Global Education and Learning Community. Kim gave testimony before the US Congressional Web-based Education Commission. A member of the MIT Open Courseware Industry Advisory Council, Kim has earned the Sun Leadership Award, the YWCA Award for Women in Business, and in 2006 was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.
