Stowe is an internationally recognized authority on business strategy and information technology, particularly with regard to real-time, collaborative and social technologies. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated his scope as a directed leader, results-oriented executive, and visionary writer and speaker.

Over the past decade he has consulted, written and spoken widely on the challenges confronting business management and the social impacts of disruptive technologies. He has served in prestigious advisory roles: GIGA Senior Consulting Partner, Contributing Editor KMWorld, Cutter Consortium Senior Principal, and Research Fellow at the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change; a Research Fellow for the Market Intelligence Group; and he has served as editor and columnist for Darwin, Knowledge Management, Cutter, John Wiley & Sons, and Fawcette. He has appeared in numerous high-visibility conferences and symposia in North America and Europe, including Comdex, many GIGA and Delphi conferences, Braintrust, Instant Messaging Planet, KMWorld, AIIM, BPR Europe, the International Workflow Conference, and dozens of others.

Stowe has a BS from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a MS Computer Science from Boston University.

He was awarded the 6th Kyu (upper purple belt) in Shito Ryu Karate in July 2003.