Mr. Sterns joined SWN Communications as Chief Technology Officer in March, 2007. In his role, he has responsibility for technical direction of the company, including software development and service operations.

Before joining Send Word Now, Mr. Sterns was a co-founder of ContextWeb, the first real-time contextualization platform and service for Internet advertising, where he served for six years as Chief Technology Officer. He was responsible for building the company’s technology infrastructure from inception to more than a billion transactions per month. During his tenure, he assumed leadership roles in application and system architecture, technology operations, professional/consulting services, and intellectual property.

Prior to starting ContextWeb, Mr. Sterns was an architect and project manager at Sapient implementing a variety of technology solutions for financial services clients, such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch. Before Sapient, Mr. Sterns was at Microsoft, in research and development of early versions of the Encarta and WebTV products.

Mr. Sterns received a BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Brown University.