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Lukas Biewald is the founder and CEO of CrowdFlower. Founded in 2009, CrowdFlower is a data enrichment platform that taps into an on-demand to workforce to help companies collect, clean and label data to make it more useful. Following his graduation from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science, Lukas led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He then worked as a senior data scientist on the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., acquired by Microsoft in 2008. Recently, Lukas won the Netexplorateur Award for GiveWork - a collaboration with Samasource that brings digital work to refugees worldwide. Lukas is also an expert level Go player.