Kari Taylor
Director of Global Accounts
Office Depot

Kari Taylor is the Director of Global Accounts for Office Depot. In this role, Taylor is responsible for Office Depot's largest customer segment including Fortune500 customers and prospects. During the past two years, Taylor has taken on the lead role in the business-to-business activities that are integrated within Office Depot's sponsorships. As part of this role, Taylor is an active member of the NASCAR B to B Council and was recently announced to serve on the Board of the Women Presidents' Organization.

Taylor joined Office Depot in 2006 as Global Business Development Manager, bringing a strong strategic and customer focus, exceptional sales, financial and business acumen to the Company. Prior to Office Depot, Taylor spent three years at TLM, LLC, an analytics and information services company, as Vice President of the Americas.

She has extensive experience in sales and marketing analytics, as well as a strong client relations background. From 2001 through 2003 Taylor served as the CEO and Founder of Extrapolate, a marketing consulting company specializing in sales, branding and market development programs for IT, consulting and life sciences companies in the USA and Europe. Taylor also spent six years in various sales and marketing roles at Sun Microsystems, including time in its European sales operations in Belgium responsible for Europe Middle East & Africa.

Taylor received her B.A. from California State University and her MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.