David Taylor joined Lightning Source in June 2003 as Business Development Director and was named Managing Director of Lightning Source UK in December 2003. He was named Senior Vice President, Global Sales in June 2006, and President of Lightning Source in June 2008. He has over 22 years of experience in the UK and international book trades in a wide variety of roles, covering retail bookselling, international library book and journal supply, internet bookselling, e book supply and print on demand.

Before joining Lightning Source, David co founded swotbooks.com Ltd, a niche online company selling paper books and ebooks to the academic community. Swotbooks was shortlisted for a British Book Trade award for innovation in 2002 and was also the subject of a number of best practice case studies. David continues to serve as a non executive director on the swotbooks' Board. David is also a previous director of Blackwell's Book Services, the international library supply company based in Oxford. He has been actively involved in the UK bookselling trade association and is both a previous Chairman of the College and University Booksellers group and the Internet Booksellers group, the latter of which he helped to found; he also served on the UK and Irish Booksellers' Association Council for nine years. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and has also published a number of articles on the impact that new technologies have had on the book trade supply chain.

David was born and grew up in Wolverhampton, England and refuses to support any other football team other than the Wolves.

David holds a degree and postgraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Reading, England and has also completed a Diploma in Management Studies and an MBA. David is married with two sons and lives in Oxfordshire