Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> February 4, 2004
ALAN TAYLOR is Chief Executive Officer of Alan Taylor Communications.
Mr. Taylor has spent more than 35 years in the communications
profession, more than half of those in the promotion and publicity of
leisure-time activities. PR Week named him one of the Top 100 Public
Relations Executives of the 20th century. Mr. Taylor was a sports writer
in Miami and Los Angeles before entering the public relations profession
in 1961. In the sports field, he has handled major events and programs
in golf, auto racing, baseball, basketball, boxing, tennis and other
racquet sports. On the product side, he has worked in the cosmetic,
tobacco, toys/games, distilled spirits, footwear and fashion apparel
industries. Through the years of serving clients, he has developed
strong, credible relationships with major media in key markets. Mr.
Taylor has also been an associate professor at New York University,
teaching event/sports publicity and is currently on the Board of
Advisors at Florida Atlantic University for its new graduate program i
sports management. He and wife Claire reside in Plainview, NY Profile
Communications?
Mr. Taylor: Started in 1980, after I spent 6 years in New York running a
Minneapolis firms New York business.
