Jay Walker

Mr. Walker is best known as the founder of Priceline.com. Mr. Walker is chairman of Walker Digital, a privately-held R&D lab founded in 1994 and based in Stamford, Connecticut. Walker Digital has invented hundreds of solutions for a wide variety of business problems. Since its founding, the company has funded an R&D budget well in excess of $100 million. The company has specialized in creating innovative applications that work with large-scale networks such as cell phones and the Internet. Mr. Walker also co-founded Synapse, a company that used the credit card processing network to revolutionize the magazine subscription business. Mr. Walker served as its marketing leader and created a customer database of 25 million active buyers. For his work, he won the Direct Marketer of the Year award in 1999. Synapse is now a unit of Time Warner. He holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Relations from Cornell. Jay and his wife Eileen have two children and live in Connecticut. Eileen Walker is a trustee for Cornell University, Chair of the Harvey School board and a former personnel executive at IBM.