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Bill Hynes
William Hynes (born January 31, 1972) is an American professional auto racing driver and entrepreneur. He races full-time in the Stadium Super Trucks and has also competed in sports car and touring car racing. He is the founder and former CEO of United Fiber & Data, and has also overseen other business ventures such as Think Loud and 120 York.
Hynes was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on January 31, 1972. He attended Union Catholic Regional High School before moving to Hillside High School as a sophomore, though he returned to Union Catholic after getting involved in a fight. He graduated from Union Catholic in 1990.
As a junior, he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve as a military police officer. After graduating high school, he served in the Gulf War and was stationed in Panama.
In 1996 and 1997, Hynes was a corrections officer recruit in the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission. He was later employed as an operations manager for Velocity Express in Lehigh Valley and a warehouse distribution supervisor for a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Philadelphia.
Hynes, who has a degree in business administration, became a real estate agent in 2002, and had holdings in Arizona and Colorado. He founded 101st Holdings LLC and held two commercial properties before its closure due to the Great Recession. Other limited liability companies formed included ADS Builders East, Inner City Investments, BKS Investments, and BKS Technologies.
In 2011, Hynes founded Think Loud Development, an urban development firm aimed at economically struggling areas in Pennsylvania, alongside members of the rock band Live. The group also formed telecommunications company United Fiber & Data (UFD) in 2012. Live departed Think Loud in 2015.
UFD constructed a 340-mile fiber-optic cable from Ashburn, Virginia to New York City in 2019. He resigned from his position as UFD's CEO in November following his arrest on burglary and stalking charges, though he remained on the company's board.
In October 2020, UFD, Powder Mill Foundation, and UFD board member Louis Appell III sued Hynes and fellow ex-CEO Chad Taylor for misusing the company's funds. The case was amicably settled in August 2022 and Hynes cleared of any wrongdoing. However, charges were filed against Hynes in 2023 claiming he stole over $4 million from United Fiber & Data by funneling money into personal accounts and unrelated businesses he was also involved in. Taylor also accused Hynes of being a confidence trickster who stole over $10 million from him and Live; after his claims were published in a Rolling Stone article about the band, Hynes filed a defamation suit in response.
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Bill Hynes
William Hynes (born January 31, 1972) is an American professional auto racing driver and entrepreneur. He races full-time in the Stadium Super Trucks and has also competed in sports car and touring car racing. He is the founder and former CEO of United Fiber & Data, and has also overseen other business ventures such as Think Loud and 120 York.
Hynes was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on January 31, 1972. He attended Union Catholic Regional High School before moving to Hillside High School as a sophomore, though he returned to Union Catholic after getting involved in a fight. He graduated from Union Catholic in 1990.
As a junior, he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve as a military police officer. After graduating high school, he served in the Gulf War and was stationed in Panama.
In 1996 and 1997, Hynes was a corrections officer recruit in the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission. He was later employed as an operations manager for Velocity Express in Lehigh Valley and a warehouse distribution supervisor for a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Philadelphia.
Hynes, who has a degree in business administration, became a real estate agent in 2002, and had holdings in Arizona and Colorado. He founded 101st Holdings LLC and held two commercial properties before its closure due to the Great Recession. Other limited liability companies formed included ADS Builders East, Inner City Investments, BKS Investments, and BKS Technologies.
In 2011, Hynes founded Think Loud Development, an urban development firm aimed at economically struggling areas in Pennsylvania, alongside members of the rock band Live. The group also formed telecommunications company United Fiber & Data (UFD) in 2012. Live departed Think Loud in 2015.
UFD constructed a 340-mile fiber-optic cable from Ashburn, Virginia to New York City in 2019. He resigned from his position as UFD's CEO in November following his arrest on burglary and stalking charges, though he remained on the company's board.
In October 2020, UFD, Powder Mill Foundation, and UFD board member Louis Appell III sued Hynes and fellow ex-CEO Chad Taylor for misusing the company's funds. The case was amicably settled in August 2022 and Hynes cleared of any wrongdoing. However, charges were filed against Hynes in 2023 claiming he stole over $4 million from United Fiber & Data by funneling money into personal accounts and unrelated businesses he was also involved in. Taylor also accused Hynes of being a confidence trickster who stole over $10 million from him and Live; after his claims were published in a Rolling Stone article about the band, Hynes filed a defamation suit in response.