Ashley Taylor is an experienced leader with a unique flair for business development and passion for growing existing and creating new relationships. He has managed to combine his passions with his expertise in sales and marketing across client, agency, media owner and tech startup businesses over the last fifteen years.He has shown exceptional leadership and has experience in both commercial and corporate culture development programs.Brilliant communication skills and an ability to foster positive interpersonal relationships have helped him achieve both marketing objectives and sales targets. He is extremely focused on the customer and has managed multi-million dollar budgets.He has proven himself to be very astute and successful by leading the strategic direction of award-winning marketing campaigns. This has extended success into a broad range of industries including FMCG, Hospitality, Telecommunications, Electrical Goods and presently Retail.He has been instrumental in developing marketing strategies and has led activity for brands across every medium - digital, above the line and below the line communications. He has also led activity at various music, cultural, and sporting events.When he isn’t contributing to the success of leading Australian household brands, he is contributing to the community. He’s enthusiastic about sports and has been a member of the Coogee Surf Club since he was five years old. Wanting to give back to the community, he is on the Committee of the Coogee Seahorses Junior Rugby Club, has been a Grand Final winning Team Manager of Randwick Rugby U19's and been involved in fundraisers for St Vincent de Paul and the Australian Red Cross.His love of sport is why he obtained a Master’s Degree in Management, with his thesis being titled, “Success in Athlete Management,” and an undergraduate degree in Sport & Exercise Management.