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Alexander C. Taylor

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Alexander C. Taylor
Born
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🏫 EducationVanderbilt University
💼 Occupation
Businessman
TitleCEO & President, Cox Enterprises
TermJanuary 2018-
PredecessorJohn Dyer
👩 Spouse(s)Greer Taylor
👶 Children2
👴 👵 Parent(s)
👪 RelativesAnne Cox Chambers (grandmother), James M. Cox (great-grandfather)

Alexander C. "Alex" Taylor is an American businessman, and the president and CEO of Cox Enterprises.

Taylor sits on Cox Enterprises' board of directors, and is the great-grandson of James M. Cox, who founded the company in 1898.[1]

Education[edit]

In 1997, Taylor earned a bachelor's degree in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University.[2][1]

Career[edit]

After graduating from Vanderbilt University, Taylor began his career as a newspaper reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel in Colorado.[3]

Soon after his introduction to newspapers in Colorado, Taylor moved to Austin, Texas, to work on the metro desk at the Austin American-Statesman, covering the police department and county courthouse, later working his way up to assistant metro editor. He then made the switch from the editorial side of the media company to the business side, selling classified automotive ads for Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[4]

Taylor was an executive vice president of Cox Media Group from 2009 until 2012.[4] In 2013, Taylor became the senior vice president of field operations for Cox Communications, the company's broadband and cable division.[1]

Taylor was on the board of directors for American Rivers for eight years, before being named its chairman in 2014.[1]

In April 2015, Taylor was elected to the Vanderbilt University board of trust for a five-year term.[2]

In July 2016, Taylor was promoted to chief operating officer of Cox Enterprises, Inc.[1] In January 2018, he succeeded John Dyer as president and chief executive officer.[4]

Taylor is a board member of the Food Well Alliance and PATH Foundation, two Atlanta-based charities.[5] [6]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Greer Taylor, and they have two children.[2]

Taylor is an avid outdoorsman and conservationist.[4]

After a four-month journey around the globe in 2001, Taylor wrote The Longest Cast: The Fly-Fishing Journey of a Lifetime, and donated all of the royalties to the International Game Fish Association for the preservation of endangered fishing sanctuaries.[7]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Alex Taylor Profile". coxenterprises.com. Cox Enterprises. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Alexander C. Taylor - Board of Trust". Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  3. "Founder's great-grandson named Cox Enterprises CEO". Atlanta Journal Constitution. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Generation Next: Trustee Alex Taylor Charts the Future of Cox Enterprises". Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt Magazine. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  5. "Meet the Team". Food Well Alliance. Food Well Alliance. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  6. "Board & Staff". PATH Foundation. PATH Foundation. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  7. Niesse, Mark. "Founder's great-grandson named Cox Enterprises CEO". AJC.com. Retrieved 23 December 2019.


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