Jay Walder
| Jay Walder | |
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| CEO of Motivate | |
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Assumed office October 28, 2014 |
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| CEO of MTR Corporation | |
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In office 1 January 2012 – 15 August 2014 |
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| Chairman & CEO of the MTA | |
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In office 2009 – October 21, 2011 |
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| Governor | David Paterson and Andrew Cuomo |
| Preceded by |
Elliot G. Sander H. Dale Hemmerdinger (interim) |
| Succeeded by | Joseph J. Lhota |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1959 Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Residence | New York City |
| Alma mater |
Binghamton University Harvard University |
Jay Walder is the CEO of Motivate, a global bike sharing company that operates systems in ten cities around the globe—including Citi Bike in New York City. Walder had been CEO at Hong Kong transit company MTR Corporation (MTRC), before resigning from that position in July 2014.
Before joining MTRC, Walder was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the New York metropolitan area, the largest transit agency in the United States.
Prior to his service at the MTA, Walder was the Managing Director for Finance and Planning at Transport for London until 2007, and is credited with the introduction of the Oyster card and with drafting London's successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Walder was born in Indianapolis and grew up in the Rockaways in the New York City borough of Queens, where he attended Beach Channel High School. He attended Harpur College at Binghamton University, and received a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Walder worked for the MTA from 1983 to 1995 holding several leadership positions, including chief financial officer. He was a Lecturer in Public Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard from 1995 to 2000, during which time he spent a year as a visiting lecturer at the National University of Singapore. From 2001 to 2007 he was Managing Director for Finance and Planning at Transport for London. He was a partner at McKinsey & Company London from 2007 to 2009. In 2009, New York State Gov. David A. Paterson appointed Walder Chairman & CEO of the MTA (the positions of chairman and CEO of the authority had recently merged when the appointment was made).
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