Ephren Taylor

By: BlackEntrepreneurProfiles.com

Company: City Capital Corporation

Position: CEO

Industry: Financial Services

Country: United States

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Taylor has over a decade of experience building successful companies. He has helped start and fund seven companies, raising millions in investment capital. Mr. Taylor is a dynamic public speaker, author, and business consultant who has worked closely with corporations such as CitiGroup, Sprint, Target, Wal-Mart, Air National Guard, and city municipalities. In 2002 his unique investment concepts earned him the distinguished Kansas Entrepreneur of the Year.

Taylor is also recognized as one of America’s top young entrepreneurs. He grasped the concept of entrepreneurship at a very young age, starting his first successful company at the age of 12, developing 3D video games. In 1999 he and a classmate started their own dotcom with $500 of savings, a job search engine for teenagers called the 4Teens Network. Then, in 2000, 16-year old Ephren won Microsoft’s Teen TechFest Challenge.

With solid business training from the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Mr. Taylor raised over $250,000 in angel financing. This allowed the company the company to grow into the highly-successful GoFerretGo.com, a multi-million dollar business. Mr. Taylor eventually sold GoFerretGo.com, paving the way for establishing Amoro Developments, a holding company with assets in real estate.

AmoroCorp developed from another company he founded in 1999 that handled the investments of others: COC Ventures. The concepts he developed for COC Ventures are what earned him the coveted Kansas Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2002.

In February Amoro Management was chosen by entertainment legend Snoop Dogg to create and manage the endowment fund for his Snoop Youth Football League.

On May 5, 2006 City Capital Corporation announced the appointment of Ephren W. Taylor II as the Company's new CEO. The appointment makes CEO Ephren Taylor, at 23, one of the youngest CEOs of a publicly traded company in the U.S., as well as the youngest African American CEO of a public company.

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