Polese serves on the board of the Long-term Stock Exchange and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of California.
The Board guided the Commerce Department's study of US economic competitiveness, delivering a report with recommendations to Congress in January 2012.
Previously, Polese served as CEO of SpikeSource Inc., which developed software to automate open source application management.
[10] Before co-founding Marimba, Polese spent more than seven years with Sun Microsystems and was the founding product manager for Java when it launched in 1995.
[11] Prior to joining Sun, Polese worked on expert systems at IntelliCorp Inc., helping Fortune 500 companies apply artificial intelligence to solving complex business challenges.