BALTIMORE, Md. — United States Naval Academy alumnus Stephen Taylor ’99 served as a featured guest on the Time4Coffee Podcast with Andrea Koppel. The purpose of the podcast is to provide ‘caffeinated career conversations’ for 18-25 year olds and provide an inside track on what professionals in dozens of different careers actually do in their jobs, their lessons learned and insider tips.
The complete series is available at https://time4coffee.org or visting the podcast page on Spotify by CLICKING HERE.
Taylor is currently the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the tech startup Fixt, based in Baltimore, Md., the first on-demand mobile device repair platform for the enterprise, where he is responsible for team alignment, scaling operations, and growing revenue. Fixt is an on-demand tech repair platform geared more towards businesses and corporations than the private consumer. It sends technicians to a location to either repair, replace or setup devices/systems. In August 2020, Fixt was acquired by Assurant, a global provider of risk management products and services.
Prior to joining Fixt in 2019, he was a general manager for the ridesharing giant Lyft, heading up the business operations across New York state and the Mid-Atlantic, one of the company’s largest and most complex regions. At Lyft, he was responsible for revenue growth, retail operations, community engagement, compliance, and customer support.
From 2010 to 2015, Steve worked as a management consultant for PRTM Management Consultants and PricewaterhouseCoopers primarily working on the development of risk frameworks, talent transformation and a venture ecosystem program.
An advisor at Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Fund supporting entrepreneurs outside of the major investment hubs of Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston, Taylor is also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgetown University and serves on the boards of the Greater Washington Board of Trade and DC Police Foundation. In 2012, Steve founded District Ventures, an angel investment group funding and advising entrepreneurs focused on enterprise business solutions and consumer products.
A nine-year veteran of the Navy as a Naval Flight Officer he was forward deployed to Atsugi, Japan, with further deployments to the Western Pacific, South China Sea, and Iraq prior to a final tour at the White House,
A 1999 graduate of the Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science, he earned a Masters of Policy Management from Georgetown in 2009.
