Taylor is a founding employee of MistyWest and an advisor to the Creative Destruction Lab incubator. Holding an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from UBC, Taylor has over 15 years of experience designing and leading engineering teams to create novel hardware for applications in cosmology, molecular biology, agriculture, and mining. He was a lead inventor for a patented miniaturized optical particle counter, and his work has contributed to the spin-out companies of Google X.
