ROGER FRANKLIN WILLIAMS: Guest, Chris Messina.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2026
hris Messina’s vision for greater Orlando and Orange County is to see it become one of the top metropolitan areas in America with a diversified economic base, vibrant, safe neighborhoods and efficient, transparent government. Chris is a tech entrepreneur and education philanthropist with over 30 years of business experience. He lives in Winter Park, Orange County. He successfully founded and ran several medical technology businesses and served on multiple boards, among them industry consortiums, hospitals and educational non-profits. Chris has been married for over 20 years to his wife Julie, a naturalized U.S. citizen. They have three children – two at colleges in Florida and one at an Orange County Christian school, where he serves as a volunteer football coach. Chris has an MBA from Harvard, a BS in Economics and a Masters in City & Regional Planning from Rutgers.
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