E. Jennings (EJ) Taylor’s 35 year career in industrial electrochemistry has been focused on developing innovative electrochemical technologies both as an “intrapreneur” while employed at corporate R&D laboratories and as an entrepreneur at Faraday Technology. As Faraday Technology’s founder and chief technical officer, his approach to technology development is based on a careful balance between fundamental understandings combined with the rational acceptance of evolving observations that do not necessarily fit the current electrochemical paradigm. Taylor has created a culture at Faraday that encourages team work across a variety of science and engineering disciplines, to enable technology development from conception to beta-scale demonstration.
Taylor’s involvement with ECS over the years has been immense, serving on many committees and co-organizing numerous symposia. Currently, he serves as ECS’s Treasurer.
Taylor has over 190 publications and is a recipient of the 2008 Blum Scientific Achievement Award of the National Association of Surface Finishers based on Faraday Technology’s Contributions to the field of pulse/pulse reverse electrolytic surface finishing. In conjunction with a team from Faraday Technology, Taylor also received a 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for electrodeposition of functional chromium coatings from a trivalent electrolyte.