President & CEO Mike Taylor
Mr. Taylor has worked in the finance sector since 1996. In 2009, he founded his own consulting business for private and early stage public companies seeking capital markets and investment banking assistance. Prior to this, Mr. Taylor spent a year as Vice President at a New York-based boutique investment bank, originating, valuing, structuring and placing private investments in public companies with market caps of $50 million to $300 million. In addition to capital raises he helped develop the M&A, asset-backed lending, equity line and debt trading practices at the firm.

Mr. Taylor has traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe to discuss capital market dynamics with institutional investors presenting key market findings at major client and industry events. He also commented on market activity for the media including Bloomberg, CNBC, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Taylor has provided his opinions for optimal asset and sector allocations to buy-side institutional portfolio and risk managers and quantitative and fundamental analysts. He has also presented new credit products to sales trading and research teams, and advised multiple departments on structured finance new issuance and cross-market research and capital markets priorities.

Mr. Taylor earned a Master of Policy Sciences degree with a focus in Economics from the University of Maryland Graduate School Baltimore Co.