Bill Townsend

Bill Townsend (born c. 1965)[1] is an entrepreneur who helped launch several leading Internet companies including search engine Lycos, social networking site SixDegrees, now LinkedIn, GeoCities (sold to Yahoo!) and Deja.com (sold to Google and eBay). He is President & CEO of TRICCAR, Inc., a publicly-held bioceutical research and development company focused on pharmaceutical and bioceutical solutions to common diseases.[2] He is also President & CEO of Ontheline Corporation, a next generation communications and digital lifestyle platform [3]

Education

Townsend earned an MBA from Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business where he held the John Schoen Entrepreneur-in-Residence chair and lectured on leadership and entrepreneurship.[4] He earned his BA at The College of Wooster and studied at Washington & Jefferson College and SDA Bocconi.[5]

Career

Townsend has founded, co-founded or served on the executive management team or on the board of directors at several global biomedicine, nutraceutical, Internet, and technology companies. Most notably of these companies is TRICCAR, Inc., a bioceutical firm focused on bioceutical and pharmaceutical research, development, and marketing, where he serves as President and Chief Executive Officer [6] as well as the Internet search engine company Lycos.[7] Lycos was acquired by Terra Networks, the Internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica for $12.5 billion.[8]

Townsend served on the Board of Directors and oversaw the Marketplace division of the $2.8 billion Newegg.com company, the second largest pure-play e-commerce retailer behind Amazon.[9] He oversaw the company's global marketplace division and its growth to over $280 million.[10] Previously, he served on the boards of IAB, PacAirVentures, ReallyEasyInternet VOIP, and Futuristics.net.[11]

Philanthropy

In 2000, Townsend founded the Amati Foundation to help expand the stringed arts, specifically education in playing, making, and preserving the violin.[12]

Townsend began studying violin making under the tutelage of Ziang Mei and William Hilton (a student of Vhakn Nigogosian), and Alberti Genduso (who has studied with the German masters Horst Kloss and Karl Roy, director of the Bavarian State School of Violin Making in Mittenwald, Germany). Townsend has made musical instruments for the likes of Martie Maguire of The Chicks and concert violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.

In 2005, he introduced a wood treatment system to increase sonority and harmonics in instrument making. This system, Il Cremonese Violin Treatments, matched the ground used by Antonio Stradivari on which to apply varnish and protect wood.[13][14] One of his instruments was featured in The Smithsonian Institution's Heart & Hands exhibition about musical instruments and their makers. Another of this violins is in the GRAMMY museum. He donates proceeds of his instrument sales to charity.[15]

Townsend is the son of Jacquelyn Mayer, Miss America 1963. He contributes time and funding to women's issues, education and animal welfare causes.[16]

Politics

Townsend was the 1992 Republican nominee for United States Congress in Pennsylvania's 20th Congressional District, narrowly losing to Democratic incumbent Austin Murphy.[1][17]

References
  1. Lawrence Kestenbaum. "Index to Politicians: Townsend". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  2. "TRICCAR announces results of first patient study of its Organ Fat Formula (OFF©) - TRICCAR". FirstLine Magazine. December 7, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  3. "On the Line".
  4. "Baylor University || Executive MBA". Baylor.edu. January 9, 2012. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  5. "Wooster Alumni Community - Margaret Miller Townsend '37". Woosteralumni.org. October 13, 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  6. "TRICCAR".
  7. "BaylorTV.com || Ben Williams Distinguished Speaker Series: Bill Townsend". Archived from the original on April 4, 2007. Retrieved April 20, 2007.
  8. Kleinbard, David (May 16, 2000). "Lycos in $12.5B deal". CNN.
  9. "Top 5 Online Retailers: 'Electronics And Media' Is The Star Of E-commerce Worldwide". Forbes.
  10. "Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, LED LCD TV, Digital Cameras and more!". Newegg.com. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  11. "Network Event Theater Launhces Subsidiary". bloomberg.com. 28 October 1998. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  12. "Become A Patron". Amatifoundation.org. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  13. "Techie enjoys new life as a violinmaker - YNN - Your News Now". Austin.ynn.com. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  14. Los Angeles Times Magazine, December 2004 print edition
  15. "William Townsend Violins". Townsendviolins.com. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  16. "Motivational & Inspirational Speaker". Jackie Mayer. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  17. The Congressional Record and Republican National Committee
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