Fall Energy Conference & Annual Meeting

Keynote Speaker

Jay Paterno

Weathering The Storms of Adversity: Consistency Is Key

Jay Paterno is the President of Blue Line 409 LLC, a broad-based practice touching business ventures, writing, television, public speaking and consulting in college athletics and other areas. Jay has over two decades’ experience as a college football coach at Penn State, the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut and James Madison University. As a writer, he wrote the Best-Selling book “Paterno Legacy”, and followed it up in 2020 with the novel Hot Seat: A Year Inside College Football’s Pressure Cooker. In 2012 his Eulogy at the Memorial for Joe Paterno was honored among “The Most Important Speeches of The Century” by American Rhetoric. He continues to speak on leadership, team building, and crisis management to industry and on college campuses and serves as an Alumni-elected member of Penn State University’s Board of Trustees.