Kent Taylor

Current

• VP/General Manager at acrolinx North America, Inc.
• Principal at KM Taylor Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• VP - Business Development at I.O. Technologies LLC (Sole Proprietorship)
• Revered Elder at Isogen International/DataChannel/Innodata-Isogen
• Director, Technical Publications and Training at AT&T/Lucent Technologies

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Education

• Wake Forest University - Babcock Graduate School of Management
• Northwestern University

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Industry

Publishing

Kent Taylor’s Summary

BSEE Northwestern University, MBA Wake Forest University.

Ten years field engineering experience on large-scale military projects; seven years international exposure.

Two years Manufacturing Management experience.

Twenty years management experience in large-scale multi-location Technical Publishing and Training Division of AT&T.

Ten years experience working with startup companies: strategic/tactical planning and implementation, management mentoring, infrastructure development, business development, sales/marketing, financial management, product/service development.

Three years experience as Founder and General Manager of acrolinx North America, Inc. - a subsidiary of acrolinx GmbH (Germany): responsible for all aspects of establishing and growing the corporation.

Goal: To apply my skills and experience to help small companies grow successfully, and to help large companies and organizations thrive and prosper.

Kent Taylor’s Specialties:

Engineering, Systems Integration, Tech Pubs/Translation/Localization, General Management/Leadership, Product/Service Development, Strategy Development, Organizational Troubleshooting/Development, Project Management, IT Management, Engineering Management, Financial Management, Startups, Turnarounds, Mergers, Meeting Facilitation, Conflict Resolution.

Kent Taylor’s Experience

• VP - Business Development

  I.O. Technologies LLC (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  February 2003 — January 2006 (3 years)

  Marketing, Sales, Infrastructure Development, Business Development

• Revered Elder

  Isogen International/DataChannel/Innodata-Isogen

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  April 1997 — September 2003 (6 years 6 months)

  General Management, business planning, strategy development, business development, consultative/solution selling.

• Director, Technical Publications and Training

  AT&T/Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Publishing industry)

  January 1978 — October 1996 (18 years 10 months)

  Various management positionsover the years, including operations, project and financial management, business planning, strategy development, data center, standards development, new business incubator, new product/service development, organizational mergers.