Johnny C. Taylor

Company: IAC/InterActiveCorp

Position: Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Industry: Media

Country: United States

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. is the senior vice president of human resources for IAC and has overall responsibility for the human resources strategy and execution for the Company.

Most recently, Mr. Taylor served as the senior vice president of human resources for LendingTree and the other businesses in the IAC financial services and real estate division. Prior to joining LendingTree, Mr. Taylor was president of McGuireWoods HR Strategies LLC, a resources consulting subsidiary of the McGuireWoods law firm and served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary for Compass Group USA, Inc. Previous to that, Mr. Taylor spent more than eight years in senior executive human resources and legal positions with Viacom subsidiaries, Blockbuster Entertainment and Paramount Pictures.

Mr. Taylor is the chairman of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and serves on the following professional and community organizations boards: Drake University Board of Trustees; University of Miami President's Council; Queen's University/McColl School of Business Board of Visitors; and the Charlotte Law School Board of Trustees.

Mr. Taylor received his bachelors of science degree in communication, with general honors, from the University of Miami; masters of arts in mass communication, with honors, from Drake University; and doctorate of jurisprudence, with honors, from Drake University Law School, where he served as research editor of the Drake Law Review and argued on the National Moot Court Team. He is a member of the Florida, Illinois and Washington, D.C. bars, and holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification.