Dylan Taylor (executive)


Dylan Taylor is an American executive and super angel investor in the NewSpace industry. He is the Chairman and CEO of Voyager Space Holdings and former Global President of Colliers International.

Background

Taylor holds a bachelor's degree with honors from University of Arizona. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago. Taylor is a Delphi Fellow of Big Think and speaks regularly on matters related to commercial real estate and global commerce. He has been quoted and interviewed by Bloomberg TV and CNBC.
Taylor's community interests have included the March of Dimes, Colorado Film Commission, The Kempe Foundation, and the Denver Council on Foreign Relations. In 2017, he founded the global non-profit Space For Humanity. Taylor is an active member of the Young Professionals Organization.
In 2011, he was named one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders. In 2014, he was selected as a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Career

Taylor has held several executive roles for various global companies and currently serves as the Chairman and CEO of Voyager Space Holdings, a holding company focused exclusively on the space industry.
From June 2015 to June 2019 Taylor served as Global President of Colliers International. Prior to that, Taylor served as Chief Executive Officer and President for the Americas. In 2013, Dylan Taylor was awarded Mid-market awards 'Mid-Market Rising Star of the Year.' In 2016, Taylor was named among Real Estate Forum magazine's ELITE 70. In 2017, Taylor was inducted into IAOP's Leadership Hall of Fame for reshaping commercial real estate outsourcing. In 2018, Taylor was named Alumnus of the year by the University of Arizona.
Early in his career, Taylor worked at Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, where he spent more than five years as Senior Vice President of Corporate Solutions. Prior to Jones Lang LaSalle, Taylor spent nearly seven years at SAIA-Burgess Electronics holding AG, in various positions.

Investor

Taylor is an angel investor in the space industry, and is often interviewed and quoted about the future of the Space-related economy and space investing. He has written articles for SpaceNews and other industry publications. Taylor is also co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.
In 2019, he was named as one of Top 10 VC investors in the space tech industry by PitchBook. In 2020, he received the Commercial Space Business & Finance Award from the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.
In June 2020, Xplore announced that Taylor, on behalf of Space For Humanity, had reserved payload space on its first mission beyond Earth orbit.

Space manufacturing

In February 2017, Taylor became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when a gravity meter he commissioned and co-designed was printed on the International Space Station. The item was subsequently donated to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.