Ray O’Connor

Ray O’Connor is a co-founder and the CEO of the Wisconsin Athletic Club. Ray, with his original partners Keith Nygren and Ted Torcivia, created what is today the Wisconsin Athletic Club in the 1990’s. Ray’s focus today at the WAC is in new club development, marketing, membership sales, finance and information technologies. Ray served on the board of the Health & Fitness Association (HFA, formerly IHRSA) from 2015-2019.

The Wisconsin Athletic Club is the largest and most respected privately-owned athletic club in Wisconsin. The WAC has three main business units: private athletic club operations, WorkingWell corporate wellness and real estate development.

The WAC develops real estate for their athletic clubs and medical office buildings for their corporate partners and affiliated hospitals. In addition to real estate, the WAC’s corporate wellness branch, WorkingWell, develops, equips and manages on-site fitness centers for Fortune 500 companies in the greater Milwaukee area.

The WAC private athletic club business, founded in 1976, features eight unique locations serving greater Milwaukee. The clubs are multi-purpose, including fitness, indoor and outdoor aquatics, and court sports facilities that include tennis, basketball, and pickleball. The WAC serves 32,000+ adult members and 6,000+ children of those members. The WAC is competing in the premium fitness market in Milwaukee and is a recognized leader in health and fitness in southeastern Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Athletic Club’s goal is to make fitness both valuable and fun for their members, with convenient hours, a wide variety of classes, lessons, personal training and group fitness programs for all levels up to senior. The WAC’s health and fitness programs have been honored nationally and endorsed locally with over 200 corporate wellness affiliations. They take pride in continuing education programs that create the friendliest, most knowledgeable fitness professionals in southeastern Wisconsin.