Mark Taylor, Principal
Nashville, TN
Mark Taylor has spent the past 30 years leading multinational manufacturing and technology companies through profitable transitions in business/subsidiary startup, product launch, business revitalization, global market expansion, and complex mergers and acquisitions. Leveraging his experience working across five continents, Mark has taken blue chip and Fortune 200 companies to 20-fold increase in new-product sales, elimination of profit-draining expenses, and up to $250M in worldwide revenues. First, in his native England, and for the past 21 years in the United States (obtaining his US citizenship), Mark has counseled business owners and executive teams in remediating problems, tearing down roadblocks, negotiating highly lucrative deals, and facilitating accelerated growth on a local, national, and international scale. Known as an insightful and passionate change agent, Mark excels at identifying a company’s potential, building teams that share the vision, and executing proactive plans to fulfill that promise and creatively find solutions that had been elusive.
After running a successful M&A consultancy in England, where he helped broker the sale of an insolvent business for $2M in profits, Mark joined a UK-based steel foundry group who sent him to America to acquire businesses. Recognizing Mark’s value as a subject matter expert in Anglo-American business relations, David Brown Group hired him as President to turn around their failing North American subsidiary (DB Radicon North America). During the next seven years, Mark grew the company to $25M in sales as a major supplier of gears and gear boxes. After Textron ($12B conglomerate) purchased David Brown, Mark successfully met the challenge of returning Cone Drive (another Textron subsidiary) to its previous high levels of profitability, in just one year. Taking over as Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Textron Power Transmission, worldwide, Mark merged 28 sales and distribution entities into a $250M global sales force, launched 12 new products, substantially reduced costs, and increased dollar sales per head by 20%.
Mark applied his engineering expertise and business acumen in serving as CEO of RTS Wright Industries, the struggling subsidiary of a British manufacturer of high-tech automated manufacturing systems. He transformed the company from a negative $20M in 2002 to a positive EBITDA in 18 months with $60M in sales revenue, positioning it for sale. He then managed the sale to a US-based competitor (at a better-than-expected price) and recovered $20M+ through the sale of Nashville-based land and buildings to third parties. Most recently, Mark helped start up Oxford RF Sensors as a VC-funded spinoff out of Oxford University, where he formed relationships with key manufacturers in the automotive, aerospace, and industrial sectors. He also employed his entrepreneurial strengths in establishing a high-end retail operation for furniture liquidation.
A graduate of London University’s Queen Mary College, Mark holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He also attended the Global Leadership Program at The Wharton School. Mark resides in Nashville with his wife, Connie. He enjoys scuba diving and is an avid soccer enthusiast.
Contact
Office: 615.438.8552
E. mark.taylor@oneaccordpartners.com