Bill Townsend

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Bill Townsend is an entrepreneur who has been involved in the launch of many of today's leading Internet properties.

Townsend has founded or co-founded or served on the executive management teams at Internet search engine Lycos, Inc. [1] He is currently executive vice president, Office of the CEO at the world's leading biometric authentication, transaction and loyalty firm, Pay By Touch [2] and has served as Managing Director of strategic consulting and corporate turnaround firm Interminds [3]. He served as VP Business Development at Deja News (now Google and eBay) and assisted in the launch of GeoCities (now Yahoo!). [4]

Townsend is a partner at Arbor Austin rare instrument equity fund and in 2000, founded The Amati Foundation, where he still serves as Chairman. [5]

In 2006, Townsend and The Amati Foundation released a seminal study on consumer attitudes toward classical music events and how those attitudes affect attendance at orchestras in the United States and Europe. The study was featured in The Strad magazine. [6]

Townsend began studying violin making under the tutelage of Ziang Mei then continued learning techniques from William Hilton (a student of Vhakn Nigogosian), and Alberti Genduso (who has studied with the famed German master Horst Kloss and Karl Ray, director of the Bavarian State School of Violin Making in Mittenwald, Germany). Townsend latched onto violin making because of his fascination with the history of the instrument and the fact that in over 300 years no significant improvements have been made to the violin which he viewed as a challenge to experiment with. In 2005 he introduced a wood treatment system to increase sonority and harmonics in instument making. This system, called Il Cremonese Violin Treatments, creates a base from which to apply varnish. [7] [8]

Townsend was the 1992 Republican candidate for United States Congress in Pennsylvania's 20th Congressional District, narrowly losing a close race by 1 1/2% to 16-year Democrat incumbent Austin J. Murphy. [9] (Additional Source: The Congressional Record and Republican National Committee)

His mother is Jacquelyn Mayer Townsend, Miss America 1963, and a professional motivational speaker and his father, John Townsend, is an attorney and former President of The Meadows Race Track in Western Pennsylvania. [10] (Additional source: Guideposts Magazine).

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