Dylan Taylor (executive)
Dylan Taylor | |
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Born | October 23, 1970 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Arizona University of Chicago |
Occupation | Executive |
Website | www |
Dylan Taylor (born October 23, 1970) is an American executive and super angel investor in the NewSpace industry.[1] He is the founder of the global non-profit Space for Humanity and the Chairman and CEO of Voyager Space Holdings.[2]
Background
Taylor holds a bachelor's degree with honors from University of Arizona.[3] He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.[4]
Career
Taylor has held several executive roles for various global companies and currently serves as the Chairman and CEO of Voyager Space Holdings, a holding company focused exclusively on the space industry.[5] Dylan previously had executive roles with companies in the real estate industry including Grubb & Ellis (now Newmark), Jones Lang LaSalle and Colliers.[6][7][8]
From June 2015 to June 2019, Taylor served as Global President of Colliers International and parted ways with the company due to a dispute relating to improper trading that was resolved in late 2019.[9][10] Prior to that, Taylor served as Chief Executive Officer and President for the Americas.[11][12] In 2013, Dylan Taylor was awarded Mid-market awards 'Mid-Market Rising Star of the Year.' [13] In 2016, Taylor was named among Real Estate Forum magazine's ELITE 70.[14] In 2017, Taylor was inducted into IAOP's Leadership Hall of Fame for reshaping commercial real estate outsourcing.[15] In 2018, Taylor was named Alumnus of the year by the University of Arizona.[16]
Dylan founded Multiverse Media Group which produced the movie The High Frontier: The Untold Story of the life of Gerard K. O’Neill.[17]
Investor
In 2016/2017, Taylor was an angel investor in the space industry,[18][19] and has been interviewed and quoted about the future of the Space-related economy and space investing.[20][21][22] He has written articles for SpaceNews and other industry publications.[23] Taylor is also co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.[24]
In 2019, he was named as one of Top 10 VC investors in the space tech industry by PitchBook.[25] In 2020, he received the Commercial Space Business & Finance Award from the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.[26][27]
In June 2020, Xplore announced that Taylor, on behalf of Space For Humanity, had reserved payload space on its first mission beyond Earth orbit.[28][29]
Space manufacturing
In February 2017, Taylor became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when a gravity meter he commissioned and co-designed was printed on the International Space Station.[30] The item was subsequently donated to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "How Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX beat Boeing to become a $28 billion aerospace juggernaut" CNBC. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ "New space holding company crafts acquisition, lobbying strategy" Politico. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
- ^ "Dylan Taylor" Archived 2014-03-26 at the Wayback Machine UA Honors College. Retrieved 2014-3-25.
- ^ "Dylan E. Taylor" Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 2014-3-25.
- ^ "Space Holding Co. co-founder on why space could be smart investing move amid volatility" CNBC. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- ^ "Colliers International Named Top Property Management Firm for the Second Straight Year" NASDAQ. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
- ^ "Colliers brokers look to better times in commercial real estate" U-T San Diego. Retrieved 2014-3-25.
- ^ "Doug Frye out as Colliers CEO just weeks after spin-off" Seattle Times. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
- ^ "Colliers fires head of real estate services for "improper trading"". The Real Deal.
- ^ "Colliers announces resolution of dispute with Dylan Taylor | Colliers". corporate.colliers.com. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
- ^ "Dylan E. Taylor" World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2014-3-25.
- ^ "Colliers acquires Kansas City real estate firm" Puget Sound Business Journal. Retrieved 2014-3-25.
- ^ "2013 Mid-Market Rising Star: Dylan Taylor" CEO Connection Mid Market Awards. Retrieved 2017-6-5.
- ^ "Real Estate Forum's ELITE 70" Real Estate Forum. Retrieved 2016-9-29.
- ^ "IAOP Announces Leadership Hall of Fame Inductees" IAOP. Retrieved 2017-2-6.
- ^ "University of Arizona Recognizes Dylan Taylor as Alumni of the Year for College of Engineering" West. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ Society, National Space (2021-03-12). "The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill - National Space Society". Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "Rocketing prices: The investors eyeing the riches of space" BBC. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
- ^ "CSF Launches Patron Program To Represent Growing Commercial Space Ecosystem" Commercial Spaceflight Federation News. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
- ^ "Space Investors Willing To Forgo Near-term Returns for Long-Term Payoffs" Space News. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
- ^ "Private Space Station Coming Soon? Company Aiming for 2020 Launch" Scientific American. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ "Space manufacturing and the last mile" Space News. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ "Space for Humanity seeks 10,000 citizen astronauts" SpaceNews. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ "CSF Launches Patron Program To Represent Growing Commercial Space Ecosystem" Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ "To the moon and back: The top VC investors in space tech" PitchBook. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ "CSF Announces 2020 Commercial Space Leadership Awards" SpaceRef. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
- ^ "FROM THE CAPITOL" Politico. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
- ^ "Space investor Dylan Taylor reserves a spot for payload on Xplore’s first space mission" GeekWire. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
- ^ "Xplore To Host Space For Humanity Payload On Its First Moon Mission" SpaceWatch. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
- ^ "This Is the First Privately Commissioned 3D-Printed Object Made in Space" Seeker. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
External links
- Dylan Taylor Official site