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Michael W. Taylor
Managing Director
HarbourVest Partners, LLC, Boston
Michael Taylor joined HarbourVest Partners in 1998. As Managing Director, he focuses on partnership investing, including both primary partnerships and portfolios of direct investments. Originally a member of the direct team, he later expanded his investment focus to include partnerships and direct portfolios.
Mr. Taylor has led several recent purchases of private equity portfolios and fund recapitalizations, such as the West LB Growth Fund and Applied Material's strategic portfolio. He serves on the advisory boards of partnerships managed by Advent International, Arlington Capital Partners, Battery Ventures, Concept Ventures, KeyNote Ventures, Newbury Venture Partners, Saints Capital, Stone Point Capital, Tempo Capital, Ventizz Capital Partners, and Vestar Capital Partners.
Mr. Taylor also serves or has served on the Board of Directors of AWS Convergence (Weatherbug), CCBN (acquired by Thomson Financial), Kimo.com (acquired by Yahoo!), and KnowledgePlanet.
He joined HarbourVest after several years with Morgan Stanley's Global Technology Group. For eight years, he served as a Lieutenant Commander with the United States Navy, where he was an electronic warfare attack pilot.
He received a BS (with distinction) from the United States Naval Academy in 1986 and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.
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