Rhys Taylor

Director, Cotton Tree Drive Limited

Rhys Taylor is Non-Executive Advisor to NZTE—the New Zealand Government international trade initiative; member of the Executive Council for Leading Change; and Managing Director at marketing and communications firm Publicis Groupe.  Previously he was Managing Director at VML and Dentsu.

Prior to this, Rhys had an entrepreneurial journey building three startups:

• Saasu software has been acquired by ERLY Group,
• Acclipse technology acquired by Wolters Kluwer, and
• Caught! photography merged operations with SnapStar.

He is a British and New Zealand citizen calling Hong Kong home.  And has lived and worked in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

Updated February 2025.