Wayne Ting

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]