Ronald L. Taylor

Senior Advisor, Retired CEO, DeVry Inc.

Ronald L. Taylor is the Co-Founder and retired Chief Executive Officer of DeVry Inc. Taylor has served on the board of directors of DeVry Inc. since 1987 and on the board of its predecessor company since 1973. Taylor and a partner co-founded Keller Graduate School of Management (KGSM) in 1973. Keller Graduate School of Management acquired DeVry Inc. in 1987 and became a public company in 1991. Taylor was the Company's Chief Operating Officer from 1973 until 2002, when he became Co-CEO, and was subsequently appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Mr. Taylor retired as CEO in November 2006 and became Senior Advisor to the Company. DeVry's purpose is to empower its students to achieve their educational and career goals.

DeVry (NYSE: DV, member S&P 500 Index) is a global provider of educational services and the parent organization of Advanced Academics, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Becker Professional Education, Carrington College, Carrington College California, Chamberlain College of Nursing, DeVry Brasil, DeVry University, and Ross University Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. These institutions offer a wide array of programs in business, healthcare and technology. DeVry's institutions serve students in secondary through postsecondary education and professionals in accounting and finance.

Taylor earned his master's degree in business administration from Stanford University in 1971 and graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1966.

After graduating from Harvard, Taylor was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1966 and went on active duty until August 1969. He served in Vietnam from January 1968 until January 1969 as a Battalion Signal Officer for an engineer battalion and later organized and supervised an innovative Vietnamese Construction Battalion in an engineer group.

For more than three years, Taylor also served as state chair of the U.S. Department of Defense Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve for which he was awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal.

Taylor is a member of the Board of Trustees of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools; is an active team chair, peer reviewer and committee member for The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and served as a Trustee on the Board of Trustees of the Higher Learning Commission. He was a founding member of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Management Board and served as a member of the Hanson Center Community Advisory Board.

Taylor was an eight-year elected member, finance committee chairman and president of the School Board for Elementary School District 181 in Hinsdale, Illinois. Taylor currently serves on the board of directors of DeVry Inc., American Education Group, Inc. and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

Mr. Taylor has previously served on numerous public and private company boards and on the boards of various charitable organizations. Included in his board memberships is service as a director of McDougal-Littell, a U.S. based textbook publisher.