Lorenzo Thione was the founder of Powerset, Inc., an innovative search startup founded in 2005, with the vision of bringing to consumers a more natural and effective type of Internet search than conventional keyword search. Funded by notable Silicon Valley VCs and angel investors, Powerset was acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2008 to complement and innovate its own search technology and offering. Currently, he is a Principal Program Manager in charge of the Powerset division of Bing, Microsoft’s innovative “Decision Engine”. In addition he’s an investor and advisor to Dolores Labs, a 2009 TC50 San Francisco startup building a scalable platform for human-based computing and crowdsourcing named CrowdFlower. Lorenzo holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and has co-authored several publications in Computational Linguistics. He is a named inventor on 3 issued and over 20 pending patents, in the US and world-wide.