KAYR (pronounced KAY-R) is a business strategist, investor, entrepreneur, and KAYJAY Consulting cofounder who has benefited from working on Wall Street and building a multimillion-dollar real estate investment company from scratch. He has held positions at Goldman Sachs, Sirios Capital Management, and Truist Securities and is a board member of Philadelphia Young Playwrights, Grove Collective Foundation, and The Great Young Society II organization. He has been featured on MarketWatch FIRE (Financial Independence/Retire Early), and KBS (Korean Broadcasting System).

KAYR’s life story was featured in a chapter in the book Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life, written by Elijah Anderson, the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. KAYR has a BA in history from Bowdoin College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.