As I wander across a wind-swept London Bridge to meet the UK managing director of Sun Microsystems, I wonder what the next hour or so holds. Kim Jones has not done many interviews since taking up the post in 2007, so she is something of an unknown quantity. She is also an American woman from a US company shipped in to head up a UK operation. How is that going to impact on the way she engages with Sun's UK customer base? Jones has been at Sun since it was a start-up, and came to the UK in 2007 after stints in charge of global education and healthcare. Both of those subjects still resonate with her on a personal level, as does the green issue, which Jones was heavily involved with before it became fashionable. Outside of Sun, Jones is a member of the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, which brings together business leaders from major UK and international companies who believe that there is an urgent need to develop new and longer-term policies for tackling climate change. She is also a representative on the CBI's Climate Change taskforce along with 17 other chairmen and CEOs from some of the world's largest companies. But Jones was a green advocate long before it became the fashionably high-profile issue it is now.
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