Wayne Ting | |
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| Born | December 1, 1983 |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) Harvard University (MBA) |
| Title | CEO, Lime [1] |
Wayne Ting (born December 1, 1983 [2] ) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and business executive. He is currently the CEO of Lime. [3]
Ting was born in the United States and spent his early childhood in Taiwan before his family settled in Lincoln, Nebraska. [2] [4] He was educated at Lincoln East High School and Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts. [2] Ting graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Business School. [5] At Columbia, he was class president [6] and co-founded CU Community, later renamed CampusNetwork, [7] an early competitor to Facebook. [8] [9]
In 2009, Ting helped organized the National Equality March, which drew between 100,000 and 200,000 people to demand LGBTQ equality in Washington DC. [10]
Ting worked at Bain Capital and at McKinsey & Company before serving as a Senior Policy Advisor on the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama from 2012 to 2014. [11]
From 2014 to 2018, Ting worked at Uber, where he was chief of staff to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and managed its Northern California business. [12]
In 2018, Ting joined Lime as its Global Head of Operations and Strategy. [13] He was named CEO of the company in 2020, replacing company co-founder Brad Bao, who remains chairman. [14] In November 2021, Ting announced intentions to take the company public in 2022. [15] [16]
Ting is also an investor who invested in startups such as Dispo [17] and All Day Kitchens. [18] [19]
In 2022, Ting was named as one of the Out100 honorees. [20] Ting was also named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business 2023. [21]
Ting resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his husband, Stathis G Yeros. [2]