CEO MONTHLY / ISSUE 11 2024 17 Most Influential CEO 2024 – Italy (Defense Manufacturing) Steven Taylor is well-known for his varied skillset which has helped him throughout his highly diverse career with startups, SMEs, and international corporations. Working within many sectors, from aviation to consulting, chemicals to technology, and more, he has aided multiple businesses with their projects, people, and overall success. With excellent operational, organisational, and restoration skills, Steven was recently brought into Arescosmo, an innovative defence and space company, which was in need of recalibration. As Chairman of the Board and CEO of Arescosmo since January 2023, Steven has brought a wealth of experience, compassion, and unwavering strength into the company’s everyday operations. One of the key factors of Steven’s contribution to any company he has worked with is his dedication to problem solving. Although he has worked in multiple CFO positions, he has focused less on numbers and more on the people he has been in contact with over the years. His commitment to organising people has been a major strength throughout his career, helping him to successfully transform companies and facilitate positive change within them. Steven told us that strength in building relationships is absolutely fundamental to any business’ operations. Keeping contact with various people who have worked for him, he has constructed many strong relationships over his time in different leadership roles. The relationships he has built with those at Arescosmo are no different as he has helped the company to become more integrated across departments. Building trust and using knowledge to help people comes as part of life, especially for those in business. He is no stranger to utilising all he knows to support those around him, no matter which department they work in or what role they fit into at an organisation. He has mentored many people and built connections both between himself and his team, and between colleagues at numerous companies. Atop this, having worked in so many sectors, Steven brings his consulting skills to transformational roles that seamlessly fit into any company’s needs, across any industry. Helping people to refine and reach their vision, Steven’s experience has led him to successfully aiding positive change throughout each company he’s been part of. For example, at Arescosmo, Steven calls the entire management team on a weekly stand up basis to ensure free-flowing information sharing across the business. With around 50 people at the company, this is an important process for ensuring transparency and teamwork across the board. Keeping information flowing decreases the risk of rumblings and rumours across any business and, therefore, ensures that trust can be built between all team members. Knowing how each department impacts one another is key to a successful business network, and guarantees that people come together to reach the same goal while helping one another to succeed. With a shared interest in a business and its team members, Steven gets people involved in activities, makes sure everyone is aware of their surroundings, and helping them to build their cultural values to ensure everyone’s voice is heard. He commented that, although this is a slow process, this is a crucial part of team building and demonstrates that even as an executive you’re part of the team. With so much experience behind him, Steven has plenty of wisdom to share with others. Sharing his insights for budding CEOs, he said, “You must create a good team as you cannot do everything by yourself. You must have a team to trust, know your product, and know your realm. Humility as a boss is important – you make the decisions and weigh them up but the Sep24268 When working within any sector as an executive, it is of utmost importance that you lead with compassion while utilising everything you know. Here we introduce Steven Taylor who provides invaluable consultancy, advisory, and capital raising experience to any company he works with. Currently Chairman and CEO of Arescosmo, Steven brings his unique experiences to the Defense Manufacturing sphere. humility approach creates better empathy and delivers emotional intelligence.” For the future ahead, Steven is keen to share his expertise and experiences with others and we are sure that the projects he plans to take on will be a success. He has been, and will always be, devoted to helping others and, with a new important start-up project in the pipeline for the future, Steven will contribute to the creation of new products in the defence industry – and beyond. Contact: Steven Taylor Company: Arescosmo Web Address: https://arescosmo.it/
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