Bill Townsend

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.{{cite web |date=January 9, 2012 |title=Baylor University || Executive MBA |url=http://www.baylor.edu/business/emba |publisher=Baylor.edu |accessdate=August 1, 2012}} He earned his BA at The College of Wooster and studied at Washington & Jefferson College and SDA Bocconi.{{cite web |date=October 13, 2009 |title=Wooster Alumni Community - Margaret Miller Townsend '37 |url=http://woosteralumni.org/s/1090/index.aspx?sid=1090&gid=1&pgid=1269 |publisher=Woosteralumni.org |accessdate=August 1, 2012}}

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 {{cite web |url=https://www.triccar.com/|title=TRICCAR}} as well as the Internet search engine company Lycos.{{cite web |url=http://www.baylortv.com/video.php?id%3D001020 |title=BaylorTV.com || Ben Williams Distinguished Speaker Series: Bill Townsend |access-date=April 20, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404070224/http://baylortv.com/video.php?id=001020 |archive-date=April 4, 2007 }} Lycos was acquired by Terra Networks, the Internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica for $12.5 billion.{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2000/05/16/europe/terra/ |title=Lycos in $12.5B deal |first=David |last=Kleinbard |work=CNN |date=May 16, 2000}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninaangelovska/2019/05/20/top-5-online-retailers-electronics-and-media-is-the-star-of-e-commerce-worldwide/#1df7062f1cd9 |title=Top 5 Online Retailers: 'Electronics And Media' Is The Star Of E-commerce Worldwide|website=Forbes }} He oversaw the company's global marketplace division and its growth to over $280 million.{{cite web|url=http://www.newegg.com/Info/NewsroomDetail.aspx?ID=1014&Type=3 |title=Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, LED LCD TV, Digital Cameras and more! |publisher=Newegg.com |date= |accessdate=August 1, 2012}} Previously, he served on the boards of IAB, PacAirVentures, ReallyEasyInternet VOIP, and Futuristics.net.{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/1998-10-28/network-event-theater-launches-subsidiary-to-be-headed-by-two-f-j3xtc6mv |title=Network Event Theater Launhces Subsidiary|work=bloomberg.com |date= 28 October 1998|accessdate=August 1, 2012}}

In 2000, Townsend founded the Amati Foundation to help expand the stringed arts, specifically education in playing, making, and preserving the violin.{{cite web|url=http://www.amatifoundation.org/getinvolved.html |title=Become A Patron |publisher=Amatifoundation.org |date= |accessdate=August 1, 2012}}

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.{{cite web|author=|url=http://austin.ynn.com/content/84453/techie-enjoys-new-life-as-a-violinmaker |title=Techie enjoys new life as a violinmaker - YNN - Your News Now |publisher=Austin.ynn.com |date= |accessdate=August 1, 2012}}

Townsend is the son of Jacquelyn Mayer, Miss America 1963. He contributes time and funding to women's issues, education and animal welfare causes.{{cite web|url=http://www.jackiemayer.com |title=Motivational & Inspirational Speaker |publisher=Jackie Mayer |date= |accessdate=August 1, 2012}}

Townsend was the 1992 Republican nominee for United States Congress in Pennsylvania's 20th Congressional District, narrowly losing to Democratic incumbent Austin Murphy.{{cite web|author=Lawrence Kestenbaum |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html |title=Index to Politicians: Townsend |publisher=The Political Graveyard |date= |accessdate=August 1, 2012}}The Congressional Record and Republican National Committee

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• [http://www.ontheline.com Ontheline Corporation corporate website]
• [http://www.triccar.com TRICCAR, Inc. corporate website]
• [http://www.townsendviolins.com Townsend Violins website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202102144/http://www.baylor.edu/business/index.php?id=37748 Baylor Business Review Podcast: Entrepreneurship and Innovation (interview with Townsend)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070405013733/http://www.baylor.edu/business/index.php?id=38157 Baylor Business Review Podcast: Four Things to Look for in a New Business Venture (interview with Townsend)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070404070224/http://baylortv.com/video.php?id=001020 High-Tech Entrepreneur Shares Lessons (video of speech at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business)]

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