Meet the High Sheriff of Berkshire

Sean Taylor DL

Sean Taylor moved to Berkshire in the late 1970s with his parents and brother. He was educated at local schools before attending King’s College, University of London, where he obtained a BEng (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Electronics.

He began his career working for an IT company, first in Bracknell, then at its headquarters in Silicon Valley. He moved back to Berkshire in the mid-1990s to co-found Redwood Technologies Group and in 2005 Content Guru, which provides mission-critical communications software. The company began as a handful of friends and today has over 500 employees in the Americas, Asia Pac and Europe, with its headquarters in Bracknell. In 2016 Content Guru was awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation.

Sean has supported local charities and voluntary groups both personally and through his businesses since the 1990s. He has supported Berkshire Community Foundation (BCF) since 2012 and with BCF co-founded the Business Philanthropy Club, which links local businesses with good causes. He has been President of Bracknell Athletics Club since 2013. Since 2015 he has been Chair of the Pride of Bracknell Forest Awards, which celebrate outstanding achievements in the borough for charity and voluntary work, education, sport and business. He also supports numerous other local charities and voluntary causes. In January 2018 Sean was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the Royal County of Berkshire.

Outside work and voluntary activities Sean enjoys travel, clay pigeon shooting, walking and is an occasional opera-goer. He is married with two children, one at university and one studying for A-levels.

Sean’s nominated charities for his year as High Sheriff are Berkshire Community Foundation and Learning to Work. His theme, i.e. focus for the shrieval year, will be education, covering multiple aspects, from academic to workplace to community.