Bio

Jay Sears

Jay Sears is EVP Strategic Products and Business Development at ContextWeb, creators of the ADSDAQ Advertising Exchange. Mr. Sears is responsible for bringing new products to market as well as developing key strategic relationships that drive audience and revenue acquisition.

Sears created the company's original publisher development team and launched the self service ADSDAQ Exchange Selling Desk, in use by over 5,000 web publishers today. Currently he is managing ContextWeb's Agency Trading Desk, in a private beta with several ad agencies including Omnicom and WPP, and will oversee the introduction of a self service Buying Desk for smaller advertisers this summer.

Prior to joining ContextWeb in 2004, Mr. Sears was SVP Business & Strategy Development for EDGAR Online where he drove the strategy that took the company from an under $1 million entrepreneurial business to a publicly traded NASDAQ company. He created over 300 partnerships including ones with Yahoo!, The NASDAQ Stock Market and Microsoft. Prior to EDGAR Online, he served as VP Marketing for Wolff New Media, the subject of Burn Rate by Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff.

Mr. Sears was instrumental in creating the ContextWeb's advisory board and speaks about internet advertising at various industry events including Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterWorld and interactive marketing associations including ones in Boston, Chicago and Dallas. He holds a BA in political science from Kenyon College.

Jay Sears
EVP
Strategic Products & Business Development
ContextWeb, Inc.
www.ContextWeb.com