Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC

Burton-Taylor leads companies to find new opportunities, target paths of greatest reward and least resistance, and define measureable actions which enable them to excel. 

Douglas B Taylor is founder and Managing Partner of Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a business consulting organization created in 2006 and focused on helping information, news, software and financial services companies improve performance through improved Market Intelligence (Sector or Customer Research), Strategic Planning (BU/Company or Service/Product Strategy) and Revenue Generation (Marketing or Sales Plans).
 
Mr. Taylor entered the information & news space at Reuters in 1987, where he spent 15 years in North America, South America and Europe, the last 5 of which heading Reuters news marketing and product management globally. His team successfully redefined product segmentation and commercial policy to, for the first time in Reuters 150 year history, profitably address financial professional, media and consumer audiences.

After leaving Reuters, and before founding Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, Mr. Taylor served as Managing Director, Customer Segment Management, Marketing & Product Development, for Thomson Financial in Asia. In that role he headed the marketing and product development divisions, as well as the Investment Management, Investment Banking & Research, Institutional Equities and Wealth Management business units for the region. Mr. Taylor's teams completed ground breaking market, competitor, customer and user needs research, and defined a news and data strategy which is tripling revenue in the region.

Mr. Taylor has also served as Chief Marketing Officer at Insurance Technologies, leading the research & strategy, communications and sales enablement teams, serving the annuity and life software sectors and as Manager, Partner Engagement at Microsoft, responsible for channel partner business strategy and relationship management in Microsoft’s largest customer segment.

Among other publications, Mr. Taylor has been quoted as a financial information industry expert by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The London Times, Dow Jones Newswires, Agence France-Presse and in the biography "Mike Bloomberg; Money, Power, Politics", by Joyce Purnick.

Mr. Taylor has 27 years financial information and services background, carries an MBA in Marketing and Management and a BBA in Finance from the University of Oklahoma, holds seven unique market research and analysis trademarks, is a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) and is a non-Executive Board member of First State Financial Inc.