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Tom Costello, CEO & Founder

Tom's breakthroughs in search architecture and relevance methods are at the core of Cuill's cool technology. Tom's work in search began in 1999 when he created Xift, a revolutionary search engine that introduced automatic clustering and page analysis. Tom later joined IBM where he developed the prototype of WebFountain. After WebFountain, Tom managed IBM business projects. He was a member of IBM's strategy team for Storage Systems Strategy worldwide and drove the development of the company's Homeland Security Strategy. Tom has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and was on the Research faculty there until 2000.

Anna Patterson, President & Founder

Anna was the architect of Google's large search index, TeraGoogle, that launched in early 2006. While at Google, Anna was the technical lead of one of the two Web ranking groups at Google, in charge of GoogleBase, and the manager for the core piece of Google's ad-matching technology. She joined Google in 2004 after designing, writing and selling Recall - the largest search engine in existence at the time at 12 billion pages. Anna has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Russell Power, Founder

Russell was technical lead for the serving part of TeraGoogle. While at Google, he spent two years working on Web ranking and on the automatic Spam detection project. Russell attended the University of Washington and is on leave there as a PhD candidate in computer science.

Louis Monier, VP of Products

Louis joined Cuill from Google, where he led the design of a faceted search engine. Previously, he led the design of a new search experience at eBay, rebuilding the company's search engine and serving as the first eBay Fellow and director of its Advanced Technology Lab. Prior to eBay, Louis was the founding CTO of AltaVista and launched BabelFish, the first machine translation site. He has also led various algorithms and research projects at Digital WRL, Xerox PARC and Carnegie-Mellon University. Louis has a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science from Paris Orsay University.

Vince Sollitto, VP of Communications

Vince was a spokesman for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, serving as chief deputy press secretary. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Corporate Communications and External Affairs at PayPal, where he directed public, investor and government relations from the launch of the company's service, through an initial and secondary public offering, until its acquisition by eBay three years later. He also has served as communications director to a United States Senator, a Congressman, and the U.S. House Select Committee on Homeland Security. Vince has a BA in Public Policy Studies and Political Science from Duke University.