Chris Nowinski is best known as the former World Wrestling Entertainment professional wrestler who turned his legitimate background as an All-Ivy Harvard football player into one of the most entertaining and hated characters on television . He debuted on WWE's flagship program Monday Night RAW in 2002, when he was named "Newcomer of the Year" by RAW Magazine, and was the youngest male Hardcore Champion in WWE history before his career was ended in 2003 by a concussion.

Diagnosed with a little understood disorder called post-concussion syndrome, Chris began a quest to better understand this condition. The information and story he uncovered has changed how concussions are treated in sports and beyond forever. His book, Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis and subsequent advocacy work forced the NFL to change how the game is played and how athletes are medically treated, and later his former employer, WWE, followed suit.

Chris and his relentless effort to solve the sports concussion crisis, including spearheading investigations into the deaths of notable athletes including Chris Benoit and Andre Waters, have been profiled by HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumble, ABC’s Nightline, ESPN’s Outside the Lines, CBC’s The Fifth Estate, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, National Public Radio, among many others.

To continue to advance this work, Chris founded the Sports Legacy Institute with Dr. Robert Cantu to advance research and educational work. He also continues to work as a consultant with Trinity Partners, a top health care consulting firm, in Waltham, MA. Chris specializes in commercial strategy and licensing and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.