Rodney J. Taylor is a Managing Director of Breitstone & Co. Ltd., a specialized consulting firm providing assistance to parties engaged in complex transactions involving construction, environmental and energy related risks. Breitstone & Co., Ltd. works with buyers and sellers of properties that are known or suspected to be contaminated, with developers employed to construct capital improvements on these properties, contractors providing remediation services, lenders making financing available for the purchase, cleanup and development of sites, brokers offering insurance and risk management services for environmental risks, and lawyers representing the various parties to these transactions to develop solutions for complicated environmental problems.

Mr. Taylor is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a BS degree in engineering and he is a Registered Professional Engineer. He also received a Juris Doctor degree (graduating cum laude) from the Brigham Young University School of Law and is admitted to the Illinois State Bar. He holds the Charter Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), the Charter Life Underwriter (CLU), and the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) professional insurance designations.

Mr. Taylor's work in the area of environmental risk management began when he founded the environmental risk management practice group for Sedgwick, Inc., an international insurance broker, in 1981, and has been active in the environmental area ever since. His most recent position in the insurance brokerage industry was as the Managing Director of the Willis Environmental Practice, headquartered in New York City and Nashville, Tennessee. He was responsible for the activities of more than forty environmental specialists and brokers placing coverage on behalf of clients in North America. Some of the environmental insurance products which he has helped to pioneer include: (a) owner-controlled and contractor-controlled (wrap-up) insurance programs for Superfund, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense remediation projects; (b) integrated insurance and funding products to insure cost overruns, the efficacy of the remediation processes and other environmental risks associated with site cleanups; and (c) insurance to offset or remove environmental liabilities on corporate balance sheets. He has also worked extensively with owners and operators of hazardous and non-hazardous landfills and with military installations being converted to public, industrial and commercial uses.

Mr. Taylor has written numerous articles on environmental insurance and risk management topics and is a frequent speaker at conferences and educational programs on environmental topics.