Lorenzo Thione

Lorenzo Thione

Founder & Entrepreneur, Technologist, Theatre Producer

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Principal, Producer at Sing Out, Louise! Productions
  • Principal Program Manager, Powerset/Bing at Microsoft
Past
Education
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Politecnico di Milano
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Lorenzo Thione’s Summary

Lorenzo Thione’s Specialties:

Computational Linguisitics ( Discourse Processing, Parsing, Statistical Language Processing) ; Search & Information Retrieval ; Data Mining


Lorenzo Thione’s Experience

  • Advisor

    Dolores Labs

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    2009Present (less than a year)

  • Advisor

    8coupons.com

    (Privately Held; Information Services industry)

    July 2009Present (5 months)

  • Founder & Board Member

    StartOut

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    June 2009Present (6 months)

  • Principal, Producer

    Sing Out, Louise! Productions

    (Performing Arts industry)

    October 2008Present (1 year 2 months)

    A theatrical production and investment company involved in several Broadway and national productions (Catch me If You Can, Addams Family, West Side Story, Xanadu National Tour, Slava Snowshow on Broadway) and developing new musical theater works (Worlds Apart, Allegiance).

  • Principal Program Manager, Powerset/Bing

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    September 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

  • Founder & Product Architect

    Powerset, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    September 2006September 2008 (2 years 1 month)

    I started Powerset with an exciting vision to change online search, based on a better understanding of documents and users' intent. In August 2008 Microsoft acquired Powerset with the vision of bringing its team and technologies together to help Microsoft Live Search become the world's best search engine.

  • Sr. Research Scientist

    Commercenet Consortium

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    March 2006September 2006 (7 months)

  • Research Scientist

    FX Palo Alto Laboratory

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2003March 2006 (3 years 3 months)

  • Research Assistant

    University of Texas

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2001December 2002 (1 year 4 months)


Lorenzo Thione’s Education

  • University of Texas at Austin

    MSE , Computer Engineering , August 2001December 2002

  • Politecnico di Milano

    BSE Equivalence , Computer Engineering , 19972001

    Transferred to University of Texas for direct continuation on to a Master Degree in Engineering.


Additional Information

Lorenzo Thione’s Websites:

Lorenzo Thione’s Groups:

Association of Computational Linguistics, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic Society of America

  •    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees
  •    Natural Language Processing People
  •    Broadway Producers and Investors
  •    Active Broadway and Theater Finance Network for Producers and Investors
  •    TEDxSV

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