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William M. Townsend, (born December 28, 1964) more commonly known as Bill Townsend is an entrepreneur who has been involved in the launch of several leading Internet properties. He is also a published author, most recently in the Harvard Business Review, April 2007. 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 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] In 2000, he founded The Amati Foundation, to help expand the stringed arts, specifically education in playing, making, and preserving the violin. [5] Townsend earned his MBA from Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business in 2005 from Baylor's Executive MBA program in Austin, Texas. [6] In 2006, Townsend, through 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. [7] 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 became interested in 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. In 2005 Townsend introduced a wood treatment system to increase sonority and harmonics in instrument making. This system, called Il Cremonese Violin Treatments, creates a base from which to apply varnish. [8] [9] Townsend was the 1992 Republican candidate for United States Congress in Pennsylvania's 20th Congressional District, narrowly losing by 1 1/2% to 16-year Democrat incumbent Austin J. Murphy. [10] (Additional source: The Congressional Record and Republican National Committee) Townsend's 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. [11] (Additional source: Guideposts Magazine).