William J. Christy is the President and CEO of CLASH Endurance, an event sports media company. This is Mr. Christy’s most recent venture; a brainchild after racing as a triathlete and searching for sporting events that allowed the entire family the opportunity to participate in a festival weekend at vacation destinations. CLASH Endurance is creating the future of endurance sports by producing and creating events at iconic speedways throughout the United States. These included professional races that have been broadcast via television on NBC, Fox Sports 1, NBCSN, as well as streamed on Peacock and other broadcast partners in over 120 countries around the world.
Prior to CLASH in 2013, Mr. Christy founded Cognitive Kinetics, Inc. an orthopedic/spine medical device company and currently presides as Executive Chairman. Mr. Christy has been involved with several medical device companies as founder, CEO and Executive Director. As an executive in residence with Philos Ventures, Bill was CEO of Spine Matrix, a device company during 2009 through 2013 for the purposes of restructuring the company and initiating a clinical trial. Mr. Christy led AOI Medical from inception in 2005 through 2009 where he raised the capital requirements which included listing the company on the London “AIM” Stock Exchange.
As president and CEO of Ortheon Medical LLC, he successfully led the company in its development and commercialization of a revolutionary technology for the repair of tendons in the body. With ESD Medical LLC, Mr. Christy led the transaction to US Surgical Corporation and as CEO of Synergistic Medical Technologies Inc., transacted to Ethicon Endo-Surgery (a Johnson & Johnson company). Early in his career, Mr. Christy was one of the founders and former Director of Ethicon Endo-Surgery (a Johnson & Johnson company).
Mr. Christy received his B.S. B.A. from the University of Central Florida and was the recipient of the University’s Distinguished Alumnus award in 2002: College of Business Professional Achievement. Mr. Christy has an MBA, in finance, from the Crummer School of Business and was the recipient of the professor’s choice for the most contribution to the class of 1997.
Today, Bill lives in Daytona Beach, Florida with his wife Lesa and enjoys spending time with their three grown children. Bill is an avid triathlete and stays active skiing and hiking with his family.
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