Tom White is the Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Acumino. He is an industry recognized expert in search relevance solutions and the collection of high quality human generated data for machine learning. Tom honed his industry experience during his 23 years at Microsoft. His career began in quality assurance of development tools including Visual C++, then transitioned to program management in the earliest versions of search and Office Online, and ultimately became Principal Program Manager for Bing Relevance Measurement.

Tom led the effort to bring large scale human generated data collection to Microsoft, defining and implementing processes which produced verifiable, measurable quality while controlling costs – leading to significant improvements in Bing’s relevance. During this time, Tom developed a passion for crowdsourcing and, under his leadership, his team developed a versatile, customizable data collection platform that is now used by over 60 different product teams within Microsoft, supporting a wide variety of crowdsourcing applications ranging from very small studies to massive data collection efforts. He considers his reputation for collaboration and his contribution to the professional development of his direct reports among the most satisfying of his career accomplishments.