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Robert D. Taylor is a trailblazer and difference maker. Taylor is a private equity investor and partner at 3.5.7.11.

He began his career at McKinsey & Company, where his teams’ work often featured pioneering solutions to pivotal business challenges. Taylor became the firm’s only black partner and remains known for inspirational leadership and an enduring following.

Taylor later co-founded Centinela Capital Partners where he created the Fundamental Private Equity Investor® strategy—a revolutionary approach to fund investment that CCP used to achieve industry-leading returns despite investing in the industry’s most challenging segment. Teams backed by CCP have created an estimated $5 billion in value and have unprecedented levels of diversity among their general partners.

Taylor’s business career was inspired by an urgent childhood need that grew into a guiding insight and personal mission. Taylor decided early in his childhood that he would start his own business in order to help his mother provide for their family. That decision grew into a commitment to becoming a conduit for the flow and use of the market-based and business-like approaches as components of solutions to the challenges faced by African-Americans and underrepresented communities.

In 1992, Taylor’s mission called. That year he played a central role in the establishment and leadership of RebuildLA, the recovery effort launched by Mayor Tom Bradley in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots. His work at RebuildLA created a reputation for Taylor as an expert on issues of economic empowerment and economic justice and led to involvement with a number of organizations locally and nationally.

Taylor subsequently became a longtime volunteer for the National and Los Angeles Urban League. The highlight of Taylor’s service was being entrusted with the position of Senior Vice Chair between 2005-2012.

Taylor’s mission also guided his education and his decision to attend CSUN. As a child, he learned he would need to study law and business to pursue his aspirations, but he also loved math, science and tinkering and wanted to be an engineer. Impressed by the vision and passion of Dr. Ray Landis and Rick Ainsworth of the Minority Engineering Program, he chose CSUN and became a leader in MEP, including serving as a tutor and as President of the CSUN chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers.

Taylor earned his engineering degree, summa cum laude, from CSUN and an MBA and J.D. from Stanford.

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