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William C. Carstanjen joined Churchill Downs Incorporated ("CDI") as chief development officer and general counsel in July 2005. A former General Electric Company ("GE") executive, Carstanjen brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to his leadership role at CDI, where he is responsible for overseeing the Company's legal, development and public affairs departments.
Most recently, Carstanjen served as general counsel and managing director of GE Commercial Finance Energy Financial Services, one of eight main business divisions of Commercial Finance with over $12 billion in assets and more than $300 million in annual net income. During his five years with GE, Carstanjen worked as lead lawyer for two different GE divisions and led negotiations of a number of structured transactions, acquisitions and dispositions. Carstanjen also served as transactions and finance counsel to the company's corporate offices.
A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Carstanjen received his law degree from Columbia University in New York and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. | 