Dylan Taylor (born October 23, 1970) is an American executive, commercial astronaut, and super angel investor in the NewSpace industry. He is the chairman and CEO of Voyager Technologies Inc (formerly Voyager Space Holdings) and former global president of Colliers International."Colliers brokers look to better times in commercial real estate" U-T San Diego. Retrieved March 25, 2014."Doug Frye out as Colliers CEO just weeks after spin-off" Seattle Times. Retrieved April 5, 2016."Colliers International Named Top Property Management Firm for the Second Straight Year" NASDAQ. Retrieved August 21, 2017.

Early life and education Dylan E. Taylor was born on October 23, 1970, in Denver, Colorado. He grew up in Idaho where his father was a professor of metallurgical engineering at the University of Idaho.

Taylor attended the University of Arizona where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1993. He later earned an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Career Taylor began his career in Chicago working for the Swiss electronics company Saia-Burgess. At the time, he was one of the few employees of the company working in North America. By around 2000, Taylor was a general manager at the company overseeing a few thousand U.S. employees. In the early 2000s, Taylor left Saia-Burgess to move back to Chicago where he joined LaSalle Partners, an investment banking and real estate services firm. He was promoted several times at LaSalle before he left in 2009 to join Colliers International, a real estate services firm based Toronto.

While Taylor was at Colliers, the company grew from an annual revenue of $400 million to about $3 billion. In 2011 and 2012, Taylor was CEO of Colliers International's operations in the US, and was based in Seattle, Washington. He later became CEO of the company's operations in the Americas.

By the time the company went public in 2015, Taylor owned a significant share of Collier. From June 2015 to June 2019, Taylor served as Global President of Colliers International, before he was initially fired for misconduct relating to improper trading. According to Ars Technica, a "subsequent investigation, however, found there had been no improper dealings", and "Taylor and Colliers issued a joint statement, amicably settling the matter."

Space investment and flight

Taylor became interested in the space industry in 2007 when he met Eric Anderson, co-founder of Space Adventures and became an investor in Anderson's ventures. He was initially an angel investor and focused on the space industry."Rocketing prices: The investors eyeing the riches of space" BBC. Retrieved April 5, 2016."CSF Launches Patron Program To Represent Growing Commercial Space Ecosystem" Commercial Spaceflight Federation News. Retrieved August 21, 2017. His investments included in World View Enterprises in Arizona which is developing high-altitude balloons and Golden Spike Company in Colorado which planned to offer private commercial space transportation to the Moon. Taylor, along with Mark Cuban, was an early investor in Relativity Space.

In 2017, Taylor founded Space For Humanity, a nonprofit that plans to purchase seats on commercial spaceflight for people who typically would not have access. In February 2017, Taylor became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when a gravity meter he commissioned and co-designed was printed on the International Space Station. The item was subsequently donated to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

In October 2019, Taylor founded Voyager Space Holdings, a holding company focused exclusively on the space industry. The firm has acquired several companies, including Altius Space Machines, X.O. Markets (parent company of Nanoracks), and The Launch Company. Taylor serves as the chairman and CEO of Voyager Space Holdings.

He has been interviewed and quoted about the future of the Space-related economy and space investing."Space Investors Willing To Forgo Near-term Returns for Long-Term Payoffs" Space News. Retrieved April 5, 2016."Private Space Station Coming Soon? Company Aiming for 2020 Launch" Scientific American. Retrieved February 21, 2017."Space manufacturing and the last mile" Space News. Retrieved February 21, 2017. He has written articles for SpaceNews and other industry publications."Space for Humanity seeks 10,000 citizen astronauts" SpaceNews. Retrieved September 15, 2019. Taylor is also co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation."CSF Launches Patron Program To Represent Growing Commercial Space Ecosystem" Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Retrieved September 15, 2019. In June 2020, Xplore announced that Taylor, on behalf of Space For Humanity, had reserved payload space on its first mission beyond Earth orbit."Space investor Dylan Taylor reserves a spot for payload on Xplore’s first space mission" GeekWire. Retrieved June 15, 2020."Xplore To Host Space For Humanity Payload On Its First Moon Mission" SpaceWatch. Retrieved October 11, 2020.

In February 2025, Voyager Space Holdings changed its name to Voyager Technologies Inc.

In June 2026, it was announced that Voyager Technologies Inc was acquiring Astrobotic for ~$300 million.

Blue Origin space flight Taylor was among the tourists that flew into space on December 11, 2021, with Michael Strahan on Blue Origin NS-19. Taylor was one of four paying passengers on the six-person crew that took a 10-minute flight. The New Shepard rocket launched the crew to an altitude of and returned to back to Earth. Taylor, along with the other members of Blue Origins NS-19, were the final recipients of the FAA Commercial Space Astronaut Wings,https://www.faa.gov/space/human_spaceflight/recognition an aviator wings-like badge created by the Federal Aviation Administration to encourage and draw attention to commercial space flight.

Awards and honors The World Economic Forum recognized Taylor as a Young Global Leader in 2011. He was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute in 2014. Taylor earned the University of Arizona's College of Engineering's Alumnus of the Year Award in 2018. He was named by PitchBook as one of Top 10 VC investors in the space tech industry in 2019."To the moon and back: The top VC investors in space tech" PitchBook. Retrieved September 15, 2019. He received the Commercial Spaceflight Federation's Commercial Space Business & Finance Award in 2020. In 2022, he was named the recipient of the Space Tourism Award for Catalyst

Personal life Taylor is married to Gabrielle V. Taylor. They have two daughters and live in Colorado.

See also List of people who descended to Challenger Deep

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