Stephen Taylor

Board of Directors

Mr. Stephen Taylor has over twenty years-experience, most of it as a Director or Senior Consultant, helping major firms and government
agencies in Europe and North America to access the latest knowledge and expertise for analysis and planning for new business, market
research, new product development, and technology commercialization.

He has negotiated sales, joint ventures and partnership agreements with other organizations, both public and private, to further the
strategic objectives of the organizations he has represented. As well as extensive face-to-face closure of key account sales, he has also
successfully negotiated non-cash deals with other organizations to achieve mutually beneficial partnerships.

His collaboration with External link toAREA Science Park (Trieste) started at the beginning of 2009 when in September of the same year he was appointed as Director of the Technology Transfer Department to optimize strategic activities for technology transfer.

In January 2015 he became Director of Marketing, Communications and Market Development.

Since January 2010 he sits on the board of External link to Innovation Factory S.r.l., the in-house incubator of AREA Science Park, with specific
responsibility for business competitiveness and internationalization and in May 2011 he was named CEO