Christian Bochicchio is the senior manager, commercial communications at NASCAR, where he spearheads the sanctioning body’s public relations and communications efforts around a host of off-track areas and initiatives including marketing, social and digital media, partnerships, executive recognition and more. Christian is in his sixth season with NASCAR, having joined the communications team in 2015 before transitioning into partnership marketing and content strategy roles throughout his tenure. In 2019 he left to become content strategy manager at global fintech unicorn AvidXchange, ascending to senior manager of brand marketing at the payables automation company before returning to America’s No. 1 motorsport in the fall of 2021. Christian is a graduate of St. John Fisher University in Rochester, NY and currently resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife and their two children.