Kathryn Purmal

Overview

Kate Purmal is the co founder of CoPilot Systems an educational software start up. She also serves as a board member 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.