Christy MacLear is a business person in the creative world. She has never had a job which existed before and is an expert in building businesses and start-ups with a particular focus on art, legacy, place-making, real estate and, often, degrees of complexity.  Christy acted as the first CEO for Superblue, a new company formed from the R&D at PaceX and and founding partner Emerson Collective. SUPERBLUE intends to connect the vision of artists who work in city scale, thru technology and in immersive ways, to a broader consumer market. This involves a new model of payment for artists based on ticketing (revenue share) versus artwork purchase and the development of Experiential Art Centers as a part of the new “experience economy”. The goal is to expand patronage of artists beyond collectors to a ticket buying public. She is continuing to advise leadership on the expansion opportunities in the digital realm.

She has been an independent advisor to Eric Fischl & April Gornik to convert a historic church in Sag Harbor into an Artist Residency and Arts Incubator for the town, and the Eliot Noyes Family to preserve his iconic modernist home as a center for CEO & Design leader dialogues as well as donate the archives to Harvard's MBA and MArch programs.  

Prior positions include being the Vice Chairman at Art Agency Partners, a subsidiary of Sotheby’s, focused on creating an advisory practice for artists, estates and foundations; the first CEO of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; and the founding Executive Director of the Philip Johnson Glass House, giving her deep expertise in legacy planning for artwork use, foundation start-ups and museum sites. 

Additionally, she represented the boards of three Chicago museums during the relocation of Lake Shore Drive to create a lakefront park, and led strategic planning and partnerships for Disney’s new town development called Celebration.

Christy has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.  She serves on the Board of Trustees for Stanford University and as the Board Chair of the Municipal Art Society of New York City.