Kenneth Taylor

Ken Taylor is the founder and CEO of Director Search and Taylor Meyer Associates. He is a trusted global advisor to boards, CEOs and senior leadership teams on matters relating to: Board composition; Director and CEO succession planning and recruitment; and senior leadership team recruitment. From the largest companies in the world to smaller, privately- held companies, Mr. Taylor has been retained during the last 30 years by corporate Boards, CEOs, CHROs and CLOs to identify and recruit corporate directors and senior level executives. His accumulated knowledge is embedded in the Director Search platform, which he conceived and developed and has made directly available to Boards, companies, private equity firms, venture capital firms, and hedge funds on a 24/7 basis to (a) demystify the search process for directors and senior level executives and (b) dramatically lower its costs.

During his prior 17-year career with Egon Zehnder International, Mr. Taylor was responsible for leading and building the firm’s presence in the United States. He was a senior partner of the firm and elected by his partners as: one of eight Executive Committee members managing the worldwide firm; the sole U.S. Managing Partner; and the head of its Board Consulting and Director Search Practice in the Americas. Since the founding of his own firm in 2004, Mr. Taylor has devoted 100 percent of his time to advising boards and CEOs, and recruiting Directors, CEOs and other C-level executives for his clients. Mr. Taylor’s expertise and experience is best evidenced by the long-tenured relationships he has developed with his clients, many of whom have become close friends. He has lectured at IMD, Yale, and Northwestern University, where he is a founding faculty member of the Kellogg Center for Executive Women. He has served as a corporate director and a member of the Advisory Board of Georgetown University.

Previously, Mr. Taylor was a Vice President and Group Executive for a predecessor organization to JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. where he opened the Chicago office for the bank and worked with Fortune 500 companies on matters relating to their capital structure. He holds a BSBA finance degree from Georgetown University, an MBA from The University of Chicago, and a CPA from the State of Illinois. In addition to being a CPA, Mr. Taylor also is a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).