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Patrick Taylor

  • External Event Speaker

About Patrick

Patrick is a global business improvement expert with over 30 years of delivered value leveraging experiences across all domains of pricing and margin improvement as well as commercial and financial processes to work with businesses in North America, Europe, and Asia.  Examples include…

  • Automated and improved Aftermarket Spares pricing for a Private Equity owned plastics machinery manufacturer impacting the bottom line by over two million dollars in one year. 
  • Created market-based pricing calculators for multiple divisions of Stanley Oil & Gas’ business units, driving consistent pricing at competitive yet profitable rates. 
  • Created and implemented pricing strategies and process improvement solutions across a variety of industries globally including Industrial Equipment, Up/Midstream Oil & Gas Equipment and Services, Consumer Package Goods, Wireless Telecom Networks, Advertising, Software, Wholesaling, Logistics & Distribution.
  • Delivered millions of dollars in price increase for bespoke product offerings leveraging value drivers and customer segmentation over the years.

He holds a Master International Management and a Bachelor Arts, Business Administration with a Minor in Economics.  He is a Certified Professional Pricer (CPP) by the Professional Pricing Society, and Pragmatic Marketing Certified by the Pragmatic Marketing Institute.

Originally from the Ozarks of Southern Missouri, he now lives in the far northern suburbs of Houston, TX and is married.  He has two kids and three stepchildren who are mostly on their way to independent adulting.  His eldest son has autism.

In sum, Patrick is a complete pricing enthusiast. He has held roles related to pricing including commercial bids, rate management, pricing optimization, pricing systems implementations, business requirements gathering, and pricing strategy, pricing function auditing.  He has presented pricing best practices and published articles for the Professional Pricing Society, Price-X, the Houston Strategy Forum, the Houston Strategy & Pricing Forum, and various other pricing forums.