Jeffrey Taylor

Jeffrey Taylor has an extensive background in the equipment leasing, banking, commercial real estate and motion picture industries. As a result, he has successfully guided moviemakers to raise money for their film projects and is considered an expert in private placement equity and tax-enhanced transactions. On a personal note, he has financed several movies which were filmed in the U.S. with post-production in Europe and distribution in the Far East.

He has served as executive producer on Metal Man, Alice Murders, and Pageants Can Be Murder.

His professional speaking engagements have included the Delray Beach Film Festival and the Santa Fe Screenwriting Conference.

Prior to forming Showbiz Management Advisors in 2001, he held senior positions with Citibank, Peat Marwick and the Actors Fund, a non-profit charity, where he served as their CFO.

Throughout his business career, he has lectured extensively throughout the world in such diverse countries as Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Kuwait, Malta, Mexico, Nigeria, Portugal, Singapore and the U.K. and has worked with the top 100 financial institutions and Wall Street firms in the U.S.

Jeffrey Taylor is no stranger to the self-help book market. He has authored two textbooks for the equipment leasing industry ("Selling Leasing In A Tough Economy" and "The Future of Equipment Leasing") and an autobiography on his life as a recovering alcoholic ("A Gentleman Drunk") which won him a screenplay finalist position at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in 2009. "A Gentleman Drunk" is now being translated into Spanish.

His most recent book, "Going from W2 to 1099", delivers an entertaining account and perspective on starting up a new business. The book is an excellent resource for corporate professionals who have recently lost their long-time jobs or are ready to give up the daily grind and follow their dreams.

He is currently working on his next book, entitled "Film Finance for Beginners", which will be released in 2011.

Over the last five years, he has hosted an internet radio show on wsradio.com, hosted a talk show on KFNX 1100 AM in Phoenix and has been interviewed by dozens of local, regional and national radio shows, including Lorri Allen on Family Net Atlanta, Joey Reynolds on WOR New York, Bulldog and the Dude in Ocean City, Rhett Palmer on WZTA Vero Beach, Ray Read on KCMO Kansas City, Phyllis Hall on KXLO Lewistown, Larry Steele on WPUL Daytona Beach, John Cohn on WSBC Chicago, Frankie Boyer on WXBR Boston, Reverend Hudson on WJSS Baltimore, Harry Douglas on the Horne Radio Network, Jason Spiess on KFGO Fargo, Keith Murphy on the Urban Journal in Detroit and Bonnie Graham in New York on blogtalkradio.com.

For more information please visit http://jeffreytaylorpressroom.com or e-mail him at JeffreyArizona@aol.com.