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Marketing
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2004 – Present President and Principal Consultant, Growing Company Solutions, North Potomac, Maryland, USA
Dr. Taylor
founded GCS to help emerging life science companies improve their market awareness, tone their competitive fitness, and broaden their global perspective. Representative client engagements include serving as VP of Business Development for Expression Pathology, Inc., an emerging biomarker discovery tools and service company, and negotiating an exclusive worldwide distribution agreement for QBM Cell Science, a Canadian neuroscience company.
2004-Present Senior Partner, Biotech Venture Management, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
Dr. Taylor has a productive partnership with Casimir (Casey) Eitner, Managing Partner of Biotech Venture Management, to offer joint management expertise on a retainer basis for clients in the research products market. Casey is a former Life Technologies Vice-President with extensive experience in laboratory products management.
2001 – 2004 Director
of Global Strategic Marketing, Molecular Biology
Research, QIAGEN N.V. Hilden, Germany
Dr. Taylor led a group of market segment
managers in the US and Germany, preparing
market analyses and developing growth strategies
for QIAGEN’s Plasmid, DNA Cleanup, Genomic
DNA, Protein Expression, Transfection, Protein
Array, Cell Biology, Gene Silencing and Instrumentation
products. Dr. Taylor served on the QIAGEN Technology
Council, overseeing R&D projects and evaluating
new technologies.
1994
– 2001 North America Regional Marketing
Manager, QIAGEN Inc., Valencia, CA USA
As a Regional Marketing Manager, Dr. Taylor directed
a group of six Product Managers with responsibility
for QIAGEN Plasmid Miniprep, DNA Cleanup, PCR,
DNA Sequencing and Instrumentation product lines,
achieving
an organic annual growth rate of more than 40% over the seven year period
and finishing with
revenue responsibilities of more than $62 million. Dr. Taylor launched the QIAGEN
Sequencing Services business in North America
in 1997.
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Science
Experience
1988 – 1994 Assistant
Professor, Department of Biology, Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX USA
Dr. Taylor published eight peer-reviewed
research papers, developed and taught five new
graduate-level courses on genetics and molecular
biology, and served as Interim Director of the
Advanced DNA Technologies Laboratory, a DNA Sequencing core facility.
1984-1988 Postdoctoral Fellow,
Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, Canberra, A.C.T.,
Australia
Dr. Taylor worked with the Australian
government to develop plant transposable element-based
vectors for plant transformation and genetic analysis.
This work was one of the earliest studies to demonstrate
activity of maize transposable elements in transgenic
tobacco.
1978-1980 Research Technician,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA USA
Dr. Taylor 's research on E.coli tRNA/ribosome
interactions led to a first-author publication
in Biochemistry and an additional paper in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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Academic
Qualifications
2005 Master of Business Administration , R.H. Smith School of Business,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Trained as a “Leader for the Digital Economy”, with a strong international and team-based management focus.
1984 Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA USA
Dr. Taylor's graduate training was in the fundamental
chemistry, physics and genetics of biomolecules.
His dissertation title was “Molecular
Analysis of Plant Tissues Transformed by Agrobacterium
rhizogenes A4”.
1978 B.S. in Biochemistry, University of New Hampshire,
Durham, NH USA
Dr. Taylor attended UNH as a National
Merit Scholar, conducted research on hemerythrin
and bacterial nucleases as an undergraduate, and graduated in three years with honors.
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Additional
Training
2001
Marketing High Tech Products, Software and Services,
Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA
2001
Price as a Strategic Weapon, American Management
Association
1999
Strategic Selling, Miller-Heiman
1999
Business Plans, Frost and Sullivan
1990
Professional Development Course
for Managers and Executives, North Carolina Outward
Bound School, Blue Ridge Mountains, NC
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