About Mike
In his mid-twenties Mike Taylor was an English bloke on the move. A fit and healthy senior designer, a man about town, an elite rower, a skier, a hiker. On an around-the-world trip at the age of twenty-six, Mike had his first MS symptom — though he didn’t know what it was at the time. Subways and buses became difficult, then hard, then impossible. He was diagnosed with MS, and over the next six years, his symptoms increased until at the age of thirty-three he was confined to a wheelchair.
There have been considerable challenges, but Mike has never let his condition stop him. In the midst of his deteriorating physical condition, he purchased his first home and started his own design company — appropriately called Spirit Partnership. The same year that he got his first wheelchair, he swam the English Channel. Since then he has swum from Mallorca to Menorca (25 miles), and Catalina to Santa Monica (38 miles) three times.
Mike stays busy. He co-founded the international charity Turning the Tides, organized fund raising events that reached global audiences in the millions, helped fund myelin replacement research by Dr Timothy Vollmer at Yale University.