The New Breed of Independent Corporate Directors: personal glimpses and perspectives of the tone-at-the-bottom
Dr. Taylor is a seasoned independent professional corporate director having served on publicly traded corporate boards, private company boards, non-profit boards and corporate advisory boards.  He is a member of the board of directors for the National Association of Corporate Directors (SoCal).  Further, he is a member of the International Corporate Directors Network (ICGN) whose members are pension funds, hedge funds, banks, insurance companies, mutual funds and other institutional investor organizations that oversee $18 trillion of corporate investments. As the co-founder and chief financial officer (CFO) of a publicly traded corporation, he routinely interfaced with the SEC, the PCAOB, the DTC and FINRA for nearly ten years.  As a consulting practice leader with Deloitte & Touche, Ernest & Young and The Creighton Group, Dr. Taylor has conducted hundreds of consulting projects for numerous Fortune 500 and other companies.  As an executive in the automobile and aerospace industries he had direct P&L; responsibility.  As a lead environmental auditor and consultant, he has conducted numerous assessments for the U.S Agency for International Development, the International Private-Public Partnership, the U.S. Environment Training Institute and the International Organization for Standardization around the world.   As an educator, Dr. Taylor was an adjunct professor at several universities, including the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok), the Penang Development Center (Malaysia), California State University (Los Angeles) and the American College of Corporate Directors.  He holds a PhD. in Executive Management from the Peter Drucker School of Management at Claremont University, a master’s degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Administration from General Motors Institute.   He is a Board Leadership fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and a Professional Director with the Corporate Directors Group (CDG).  He has held “fellow” status with Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) and the International Environment Management Association (IEMA).  Finally, he earned certificates from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and the University of Southern California Certified Public Accountant (CPA) program.