Dylan Taylor, MBA
Dylan Taylor, MBA is
a leading angel investor, thought leader, futurist, and founding partner
of
Space Angels, a global network of commercial aerospace investors and
entrepreneurs. As an early-stage investor in more than 40 emerging
ventures, including Planet, OmniEarth, Accion, York, Kepler, and Vector
Space, Dylan has played a key role in the growth of the private space
industry.
Dylan’s technical background, global business experience and unbridled
passion for space make him a unique figure in the world of NewSpace
investing. He regularly speaks and writes about the future of the space
economy and is sought after by the media for his expertise in the
financial aspects of space investing as well as industry dynamics.
Underlying his passion for space, however, is his fundamental belief
in its power to unify humanity. Space exploration can bring people
together by highlighting the arbitrary nature of
boundaries we create — geographic, ideological, and otherwise. In 2016,
Dylan founded
Space for Humanity, a global non-profit that strives to
both democratize space as well as to demonstrate the power of space to
raise human awareness to help solve the world’s most intractable
problems.
Dylan is a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization
of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In
2017 he became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in
space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D
printed on the International Space Station. The item currently resides
at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to having a
positive impact on the world, he has been honored with a number of
personal and professional accolades in recent years. The World Economic
Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and he was named
a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute in 2014. He is also a
Delphi Fellow for Big Think, a digital knowledge forum that brings
together top thinkers from around the world to collaborate and share
ideas. He is also Co-Founding Patron of the Commercial Spaceflight
Federation.
Dylan is also Global President for a multi-national public company. In this
role, he leads more than 18,000 professionals operating in 69 countries and
revenues of nearly $3 billion. Prior to this role, Dylan had various executive
positions at other publicly traded global companies, having lived and
worked extensively around the world.
Dylan earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of
Business at University of Chicago in 1998 and earned a BS in
Engineering in 1993 from the
honors college at the University of Arizona where he graduated Tau Beta
Pi and was President of the Engineering College. In 2013 he attended the
Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at
Harvard University.
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