
Pro-God, Pro-Life, Pro-Family — Pro-Dios, Pro-Vida, Pro-Familia
Chris Messina is a tech entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He has founded and run several medical technology businesses. Chris was also a founding director of MassMEDIC, a regional consortium of medical device companies. Chris has been married for 20 years to Julie, a Malaysian-Chinese legal immigrant who was proudly naturalized as an American citizen in 2005. After Chris and Julie’s son was born with a disability, they co-founded a non-profit foundation to support families with special needs. Chris is a graduate of Rutgers University, a former Rotary Fellow at the University of Sydney, and a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he received the Dean’s Award for Community Service. His first job out of college was as a mason’s helper on a construction crew.
"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."
-Pope John Paul II