Location San Carlos, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Female
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Kate Purmal is the co-founder and COO of CoPilot Systems, an educational software start-up. She also serves as an advisor and business coach to CEOs and entrepreneurs. In her most recent corporate role, Kate served as Senior Vice President of Digital Content at SanDisk.
An expert in launching successful new companies, Kate was co-founder and CEO
of the software joint venture U3 (merged with SanDisk in 2007), co-founder of Liquid Machines (acquired by Check Point Software Technologies in 2010), and member of the founding management team at Palm, Inc (acquired by US Robotics in 1995).
Kate has consulted for dozens of start-ups and more than twenty large companies including Intuit, Hewlett-Packard, Handspring, Palm Inc., CBS, Verifone, and Clorox. She has also held senior roles in marketing, product marketing, business development, sales, and engineering at Interleaf, Grid Systems, and Computer Associates.
Kate is a frequent speaker for professional organizations and business schools including Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management, the Professional Business Women’s Conference, the Texas Women’s Conference, and DEMO.
She was voted one of San Jose Business Journal’s Most Influential Women in Business, and has won two DEMOgod awards. Kate has been named to the Top 25 Women Redefining Success and has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Inc. Magazine, Working Mother, Working Woman, and the San Jose Business Journal.
