Board of Directors

Kim Jones is the Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Curriki, a non profit organization focused on improving education through technology for children.

Kim was formerly an Executive with Sun Microsystems for over 20 years. Most recently Kim was President and Managing Director for Sun UK & Ireland. In this role she oversaw all sales and managerial functions within Sun's UK operations, across all technology lines of business.

Prior to accepting the role of UK MD, Kim was Vice President of Global Education, Government and Healthcare, where she headed up a team committed to providing advanced technologies and services to key constituencies in the public sector. It was during this time that Kim established education as an independent line of business for Sun. During Kim’s leadership, Curriki was incubated in the education development community of Java.net, better known as the Global Education and Learning Community. Realizing the value that such a contribution would bring to the teaching community, Kim was instrumental in leading the charge to make Curriki a non-profit, committed to advancing the open source educational resources movement.

Prior to this role Kim held a number of sales and marketing leadership roles at Sun where she had extensive global experience working in over 100 countries around the world including Europe, Asia, Latin America, the United States and all of the emerging markets.

Kim has been active in driving policy initiatives, evidenced by her testimony before the Congressional Web based Education Commission in the USA. She is also regularly featured as an honorary speaker on the impact of technology in education at influential meetings around the world, including NCTET, the Worldwide Education & Research Conference (WWERC) in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and other key public sector forums.

In addition to her role at Curriki, Kim serves on the Board of Directors for Jon Wiley and Sons, and is a member of the MIT Open Courseware Industry Advisory Council.

Kim has received numerous awards and recognition throughout her career including the Sun Leadership Award, the prestigious YWCA Award for Women in Business, and in 2006, she was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame. Kim has an honorary PHD from the University of Edinburgh, and graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, San Diego.