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Technology trade and operations in marketing, sales, service, and systems integration
Kate Rubin is president of the Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA), the largest technology trade organization in the state. MHTA supports the growth, sustainability, and global competitiveness of Minnesota’s technology-based economy through advocacy, collaboration, and education.
Prior to her current position, Rubin founded Leadership Foundations, a business consulting firm focused on developing executive talent. She also was a business unit executive with IBM, where she led a $100 million, 100-person technology unit and managed multiple entrepreneurial start-up operations in marketing, sales, service, and systems integration across a broad set of industries.
Rubin serves on the Governor’s Education Council, the board of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Foundation, the dean's advisory council of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the dean’s advisory board for the Institute of Technology, and the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering board of governors. She is a member of the Governor’s 21st Century Tax Reform Commission, as well as serving on the editorial advisory board of MinnesotaBusiness magazine. In 2006 she was named one of Minnesota’s women in business industry leaders by the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal and in 2007 was elected to the Minnesota Women’s Economic Roundtable.
Rubin holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and industrial relations from the University of Iowa and has completed the coursework for a master's degree in human resource management at the University of Minnesota.
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