# William Fay

> William Fay is the CEO of Steric, a Culver City beverage-technology company that uses electromagnetic fields to fine-tune the flavor, aroma and mouthfeel of wine and spirits at the molecular level without adding or removing anything. Before pouring himself into distilling, Fay spent three decades as a top Hollywood producer, co-founding Legendary Entertainment and executive-producing blockbusters including Independence Day, The Patriot, 300, Superman Returns, The Hangover and The Town. He brought that storyteller's instinct to a refrigerator-sized machine that can rescue a flawed batch of whiskey in a single pass, winning the 2023 DISCUS Innovation Showcase and closing a $3.5M seed round in October 2025.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Steric
- **Organizations:** Steric (Steric Systems Inc.), Boy Meets Girl Productions, Legendary Entertainment, Centropolis Entertainment, New World Pictures, Film Finances Limited, SPIRIT SERIES
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Stanford University, Film, UCLA Film School
- **Known for:** Co-founder of Legendary Entertainment, one of Hollywood's most successful production companies, Executive producer on box-office blockbusters including Independence Day, The Patriot, 300, Superman Returns, The Hangover and The Town, Won the Morrison Award for Best Student Film at UCLA for directing There Will Come Soft Rains

## Career timeline

- **1990s** — Production executive at New World Pictures and Film Finances Limited; unit production manager on films including Bad Girls (1994)
- **1995** — Joined director Roland Emmerich and writer-producer Dean Devlin as President of Centropolis Entertainment
- **1996** — Executive producer on Independence Day
- **1998** — Executive producer on Godzilla
- **2000** — Executive producer on The Patriot
- **2005** — Co-founded Legendary Entertainment with Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Larry Clark and Scott Mednick; served as President of Production
- **2006-2010** — Executive produced Superman Returns, 300, 10,000 BC, Ninja Assassin, Trick 'r Treat and The Town
- **2017** — Began co-hosting the SPIRIT SERIES annual fundraiser with wife Jody
- **2023** — As CEO of Steric, won first place in the DISCUS Innovation Showcase at the Distilled Spirits Council annual conference in Chicago
- **2024** — Named Board President of SPIRIT SERIES, succeeding John McPherson
- **2025** — Steric closed a $3.5 million seed round led by a Scottsdale, AZ private equity group

## Achievements

- Co-founder of Legendary Entertainment, one of Hollywood's most successful production companies
- Executive producer on box-office blockbusters including Independence Day, The Patriot, 300, Superman Returns, The Hangover and The Town
- Won the Morrison Award for Best Student Film at UCLA for directing There Will Come Soft Rains
- Led Steric to first place in the 2023 DISCUS Innovation Showcase
- Closed Steric's $3.5 million seed funding round in October 2025
- Board President of the youth-education nonprofit SPIRIT SERIES

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Steric closed a $3.5 million seed round led by a Scottsdale, AZ private equity group, with manager Dieter Gable joining the board.
- **2026** — Steric named Steve Sukman Chief Operating Officer to accelerate global expansion in the beverage processing market.

## Links

- Website: https://steric.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/william-fay-a03a2963
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a45uEuVH6jI
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stericsystems/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StericSystems

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Last updated: 2026-06-20