Jay Williams has had a long career surrounding college athletics. The graduate from Lafayette College spent 17 years as a collegiate athletic administrator and an additional 21 years in business development and marketing, primarily in athletics and higher education.
 
Williams was the first full-time Sports Information Director for both Marist College and Fairfield University. He then went on to spend 11 years as the Associate Commissioner of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, where he ran the highly successful MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships, managed scheduling for men’s basketball, football, and baseball, and wrote the proposals to bring NCAA Championship events to Albany and Buffalo.
 
Aside from basketball, Williams was also in charge of MAAC Football, which he brokered a deal between the MAAC and ESPN to air a conference game for Monday Night Football.
 
After his time at the MAAC, Williams spent five years running business development at Phoenix Design Works, where he built a collegiate division that developed various designs to advance universities’ marketing and communication initiatives. Williams spent another five years at Eclaro Sports, consulting with smaller schools and conferences on their marketing efforts.
 
Williams also contributed to the advancement of video and print coverage for nearly 150 colleges while serving Collegiate Images.