Featured in Editor & Publisher and New York Times Magazine for his technology leadership—with work that has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and on TV at MSNBC, CNN and C-SPAN—Taylor Buley is an Ivy League-schooled decision scientist and Stanford-trained communicator, dedicated community volunteer, family-oriented loyal husband and father of two, a nonprofit boardmember and a proven C-suite business executive with transformational management experience and the flexibility to deploy into nearly any environment after spending 15 years as a professional journalist and technologist in the media industry.

Education

2021–2022
M.D.R. Dispute Resolution
Negotiation, Mediation & Arbitration
Pepperdine University
Caruso School of Law
2007–2008
M.A. Communications
Journalism
Stanford University
School of Humanities & Sciences
2003–2007
B.A. Philosophy, Politics & Economics
Choice & Behavior
University of Pennsylvania
School of Arts & Sciences

Fun Facts

  • Published author at age 20. Hosted a political talk television show on the University of Pennsyvnia student cable network. Started a college alternative newspaper.
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  • Enjoys nature, DIY projects, microelectronics, writing, coding, photography, music and video.
  • Has moved homes nearly two-dozen times since being born in Norman, Oklahoma
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  • Has been continually paying the government Social Security taxes since his 13th birthday.
    • Has lived in or around major cities including Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Washington DC. Moved across the country between San Francisco and New York five times.
  • A former windsurfing instructor, once jetskiied across Lake Michigan.
  • Studied abroad in Spain, Japan and Czech Republic—and domestically in Philadelphia, Washington DC and Palo Alto.
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Language Proficiency

Spanish
French
Catalan
Czech
Japanese

Programming Proficiency


JavaScript
97%

PHP
92%

Ruby
74%

Go

R

HTML
100%

CSS
100%

Bash
63%

Service Clubs

Taylor has been inducted into Rotary International and Soroptomists International.

Awards

1/
January 2022
Theodore Winters Award
Winters Chamber of Commerce award recognizing significant community impact.
2/
April 2019
E&P’s 30 Under 35
Editor & Publisher’s round-up of top young media professionals in the publishing business.
Featured in Editor & Publisher and New York Times Magazine for his technology leadership—with work that has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and on TV at MSNBC, CNN and C-SPAN—Taylor Buley is an Ivy League-schooled decision scientist and Stanford-trained communicator, dedicated community volunteer, family-oriented husband and father of two, a nonprofit boardmember and a proven C-suite business executive with transformational management experience and the flexibility to deploy into nearly any environment after spending 15 years as a professional journalist and technologist in the media industry.
Present

McNaughton

Oversee internal and external-facing consumer technology and digital products in addition to direct management of multiple business units and P&Ls.
2019

GM/Co-Publisher

Davis Enterprise (Davis, CA)
Lead the newsroom, business, logistics, graphics and sales deparments in addition to managing operational and maintanance issues across 25-plus full and part-time workers and over $2M in revenue.
2017

Publisher

Winters Express (Winters, CA)
Manage a small team of around ten employees, producing local content and selling digital and print advertising and subscriptions.
2014

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

McNaughton Newspapers, Inc. (Fairfield, CA)
Oversee vendors and technology partners, digital advertising services and internal IT. Lead corporate services across branch offices and support internal sales, accounting, editorial, graphics, logistics and manufacturing systems.
2014

Advance

Primary content management system architect leading the technology side of a rebrand, redesign and CMS migration from legacy content systems. Promoted to manage a small full-stack development team for Parade Magazine and Dash, Conde Nast-affiliated celebrity entertainment and food brands. Team programming languaages included JavaScript, PHP and Java.
2013

Development Manager

Parade Media Group (New York City, NY)
2013

Senior Developer

Parade Media Group (New York City, NY)
2012

Forbes

Started as a fact-checker and reporter for Forbes magazine, then moved to the Silicon Valley bureau to become a staff writer covering information security, enterprise technology and social media. Developed editorial tools for journalists and eventually joined the business side to support editorial technology operations.
2011

Developer

Forbes Media Group (New York City, NY)
2010

Staff Writer & Lead Editorial Developer

Forbes Media Group (San Francisco, CA)
2008

Reporter

Forbes Magazine (Burlingame, CA)
Present

Nonprofit Work

2021

Davis Chamber of Commerce Board

Member
2020

Yolo Community Foundation Board

Finance & Operations, Board Development
2019

Winters Community Foundation Board

Secretary
2018

Rotary Club of Winters

Community Service Chair
Past

Other Experience

2007

Robert Bartley Fellow

Wall Street Journal (New York, NY)
2006

Burton Gray Intern

Reason magazine (Washington DC)
2005

Council of Economic Advisers

White House (Washington DC)

References

Available upon request.