Announcing Gary and Karen Taylor: Man and Woman of the Year.

Our industry is blessed to have outstanding, visionary and dedicated leaders who have demonstrated by their actions that they genuinely care for the future of direct marketing, integrated marketing, e-marketing and other advanced forms of marketing education with the sole purpose of training the future of marketers with the best that academia and the business community and the industry have to offer.

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As I understand it, the main objective of the Taylor Institute is to educate the future generation of marketers, which includes telemarketing, integrated marketing, e-marketing, etc., with a four-year program. As such, Gary and Karen Taylor have undertaken the monumental task and a truly noble pursuit of establishing the Taylor Institute with their own private funds. It is our understanding that Gary and Karen Taylor have contributed approximately $3.5 million of their own funds to exclusively educate the future generation of marketers. I do not know of anyone in the entire contact center industry worldwide who has contributed so much toward the education of the future generation of marketers, which includes contact centers, CRM centers, etc. In my humble opinion and the opinion of the editorial board of Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine, which has been regarded by The Wall Street Journal as the "Bible of the Industry" since 1982, no other organization or establishment or persons has donated so much towards the industry as Gary Taylor and his outstanding company, InfoCision Management Corporation.

We are proud to have selected Gary and Karen Taylor as the Man and Woman of the Year, and we wish them all the best on behalf of the entire industry.

Gary Taylor's Other Accomplishments

Under Gary Taylor's leadership, InfoCision Management Corp. has cracked the top 100 on the Inc. 500 list.

The NorthCoast 99 Award has consistently honored InfoCision as one of the best places to work in Northeast Ohio. In 2006, InfoCision was named one of the top 10 best companies in Ohio to work for by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.

In 2003, Gary Taylor received the Pioneers Lifetime Achievement Award for the vast contributions to the teleservices industry. He also received the prestigious Simonetti Distinguished Business Alumni Award from the University of Akron College of Business in recognition of his outstanding career in business.

In 2005, he received the American Teleservices Association (ATA) Pioneer Award and the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Teleservices Excellence Award. Also in 2005, Ernst and Young recognized him as an Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, which honors entrepreneurs who put everything on the line to create a successful business. In addition, he was also inducted into Ernst and Young Entrepreneurs' Hall of Fame.

In 2006, Gary was once again recognized by the University of Akron with the Alumni Honor Award, the highest honor accorded to alumni by the University. In 2006, he was also recognized as Sales and Marketing Executive of the Year by the Sales and Marketing Executives Association of Akron.