Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 14, 2002

Dean Polnerow – Switchboard Inc (swbd)

Dean Polnerow is President and Founder, Switchboard Incorporated Dean Polnerow has been the President of Switchboard since 1998. Prior to founding Switchboard in 1996, Mr. Polnerow spent 13 years at Banyan Systems Inc., where he was the Vice President of Advanced Development and was one of the founding members of Banyan's engineering team. Prior to joining Banyan, Mr. Polnerow was a senior software engineer at Data General, where he designed and developed commercial operating systems, and helped chart the company's distributed systems architecture. Mr. Polnerow earned a BSE and did graduate work in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan. Profile
TWST: Could we get started with a brief overview of the history and

evolution of Switchboard?

Mr. Polnerow: Switchboard started in 1996 when we first launched the

site. The company was