Bill Townsend is an advisor on licensing, mergers and acquisitions. He has over 16 years of experience in the technology industry and more than 20 years in the advertising sector. He has co-founded 2 publicly-held companies. Mr. Townsend was part of the founding management team at Internet search engine, Lycos Inc; and was a co-founder of CommonPlaces (now Alloy). Mr. Townsend has been involved in the launch and management of over 14 companies including: Arbor Austin, GeoCities (now Yahoo!), Deja.com (now ebay and Google), ClearHeart LP, Dorio Inc., Interminds LLC, PayByTouch, and NewsAlert (now Marketwatch.com).