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.

A longtime racing fan and friend of Michael Andretti, Hynes began supporting Andretti's IndyCar Series team Andretti Autosport through United Fiber & Data in 2013 as an associate sponsor.

UFD upgraded to a primary sponsorship on James Hinchcliffe's No. 27 car for 2014 on a one-year contract, and also sponsored the team's Indy Lights driver Matthew Brabham.

In 2014, he began racing in the Stadium Super Trucks at Honda Indy Toronto.

After finishing seventh in his debut, he retired from the weekend's second race after four laps with a mechanical problem.

UFD sponsored his truck, and the Team UFD Racing banner was formed to support multiple trucks over the following seasons including series champions Brabham and Paul Morris, SST's first female driver Sara Price, and SST race winners Arie Luyendyk Jr.. and E. J. Viso.

Live departed Think Loud in 2015.

The deal ended in 2015, which the Appell lawsuit alleged was worth $11 million a year and resulted in the company having to pay $9 million to the team.

Hynes recorded his first SST podium at the 2015 Valvoline Raceway round in Australia, where he started on the pole and finished third.

UFD returned to Andretti Autosport in 2016 as sponsors for Marco Andretti and Carlos Muñoz, and the former gained further backing the next season after original sponsor H. H. Gregg was on the verge of bankruptcy.

In 2016, Hynes joined the newly formed EXR Racing Series, a supercar spec racing championship.

He ran as high as second in points and finished fourth.

The following year, EXR's endurance racing program debuted its Mitjet EXR LV02 car at the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, where Hynes was one of the five drivers and also worked as crew chief.

In August, Hynes, Brabham, and Alexandre Prémat won the EXR class at the Utah Motorsports Campus 6 Hour Enduro.

UFD also sponsored SST's 2017 race weekend at Watkins Glen International, dubbing it the UFD at The Glen.

At the 2017 Clipsal 500 weekend, Hynes ran the SST races in addition to making his Aussie Racing Cars debut.

Later in the year at Barbagallo Raceway, he yielded his Aussie Racing Car to fellow SST drivers Sheldon Creed and Robby Gordon as he wanted to focus on SST.

Hynes won his first career SST race in the 2018 season opener at Lake Elsinore Diamond.

He initially finished ninth, but video review found that Hynes had taken his mandatory Joker Lap prior to the final lap while many of the leaders waited until said lap, which was not allowed, due to a miscommunication with race officials.

Consequently, many of the leaders were bumped down the running order while Hynes was promoted to first place, which he shared with the original winner Apdaly Lopez.

In 2019, UFD constructed a 340-mile fiber-optic cable from Ashburn, Virginia to New York City.

He resigned from his position as UFD's CEO in November 2019 following an arrest on burglary and stalking charges, though he remained on the company's board.

In October 2020, UFD, Powder Mill Foundation, and Louis Appell III sued Hynes and fellow ex-CEO Chad Taylor for misusing the company's funding.

The case was amicably settled in August and Hynes cleared of any wrongdoing.

In 2023 Police filed charges against Hynes saying he stole over $4 million from United Fiber & Data by funneling money into personal accounts and unrelated businesses he was also involved in.