16 Facts About Jay Walder

Jay Walder was the CEO of Hyperloop One, an American transportation technology company.

Jay Walder has been the CEO of Motivate, a bike sharing company, and of the Hong Kong transit company MTR Corporation, before resigning from that position in July 2014.

Jay 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.

Jay Walder attended Harpur College at Binghamton University, and received a Masters in Public Policy from the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Jay Walder worked for the MTA from 1983 to 1995 holding several leadership positions, including chief financial officer.

Jay Walder 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.

On July 11,2011, Jay Walder announced his resignation from MTA, effective in October 2011, when he moved to MTR Corporation in Hong Kong.

Jay Walder officially took over as CEO of MTRC on January 1,2012.

Jay Walder announced he would step down from the position as MTR CEO in July 2014.

In October 2014, Jay Walder was named CEO of Motivate, the company that runs some bike share systems in North America.

Jay Walder's appointment came with Motivate's announcement of the Bikeshare Holdings acquisition, promising new leadership, $30 million infusion of cash, relocation of headquarters from Portland to NY, and immediate expansion for Citi Bike.

Jay Walder is a member of MIT's visiting committee for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Harvard Kennedy School's Board of Advisors of the Taubman Center.

In 2013, Walder gave the Gustav Pollak lecture in the John F Kennedy Jr.

Jay Walder was a Fellow of the Hong Kong Management Association, member of the General Committee of the Employers' Federation of Hong Kong, and a governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.

MTR Corp officials led by Jay Walder were accused of concealing the progress of the project.

Jay Walder had been facing calls to quit after a report submitted to the legislative council said he had stopped the secretary for transport and housing from telling lawmakers about the delay.