Andrew C. Taylor is a U.S.

United States

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 businessman. He is Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

 and Chairman of Enterprise Holdings

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Enterprise Holdings, Inc. is a privately held company formed in 2009 to operate rental car subsidiaries: Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental, Alamo Rent A Car, WeCar and its commercial fleet management, used car sales, and commercial truck rental operations.Enterprise Holdings was formed as...

. Andrew Taylor is the son of Jack C. Taylor

Jack C. Taylor

Jack Crawford Taylor is an American businessman and the founder of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company. With an estimated net worth of around $7.4 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 18th-richest American and the 40th-richest person in the world.Taylor enrolled in the Olin Business School at...

, who founded Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 1957.

Early life and career

Taylor first began working at Enterprise washing cars when he was 16. He would work during holiday vacations and during summer breaks learning the business from the ground up.

In 1970 Taylor earned a Bachelor of Business Administration

Bachelor of Business Administration

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 from the University of Denver

University of Denver

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. After graduation he sought experience outside the family business and worked at RLM Leasing, a Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company

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 affiliate based in San Francisco, CA. He spent three years there before returning to St. Louis and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

From 1970 - 1976 he worked his way up through the company. In 1976 he was promoted to General Manager of the St. Louis region. In 1980 he took the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. In 1990 Andy was promoted to Chief Executive Officer and then Chairman in 2001. During his tenure Enterprise grew from a fleet of 5,000 cars to more than 900,000 vehicles internationally. With the purchase of Vanguard Automotive Group

Vanguard Automotive Group

Vanguard Automotive Group is a company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Vanguard purchased ANC Rental, owner of National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car. The company has a fleet of nearly 300,000 vehicles, mainly from Ford and Chrysler, and operates over 1,500 locations. In 2007 Enterprise agreed to...

 Enterprise gained both National Car Rental

National Car Rental

National Car Rental is a rental car company based in Clayton, Missouri. National was founded by 24 independent rental car agents on August 27, 1947...

 and Alamo Rent A Car

Alamo Rent A Car

Alamo Rent a Car is the third-largest car rental agency in the United States. Based in Clayton, Missouri, it has branches across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, parts of Africa, Europe, and Australia, and various Caribbean islands...

. The combined fleet is over one million vehicles being rented by roughly 78,000 employees.