Mark Bowles

Mark Bowles is a serial entrepreneur, award-winning inventor (30+ patents apps), product designer (dozens of awards), marketer, and scientist (National Science Foundation grantee/principal investigator).

He has 25+ yrs in semiconductor, wireless, healthcare, environmental, consumer/retail industries and has formation and founding 7 tech start-ups for which he has raised 17 rounds of VC financing (nearly $250M).

Prior to co-founding Truvian Sciences and Salveo, Mark founded ecoATM where he served as VP Mktg. He also co-founded Staccato in 2002 as VP Mktg & Bus. Dev and co-founded and served as President/COO and director of BOPS, Inc.

Prior to this, he helped form and fund Power Computing, Panorama Designs, and BlueSteel Networks. Bowles also spent six years at Motorola Semiconductor where he held various distribution management, sales, and market development positions; he left Motorola in '96 as VP MSPI of PowerPC Market Development.

He has 9 patents granted and 30+ pending in kiosk technology, wireless, and diagnostics. He is also National Science Foundation principal investigator, grantee, and researcher. He has been an active standards member of IEEE 802.15.3a, 802.15.4a, 802.11n; co-founded MBOA (marketing chair); WiMedia Alliance director (Liaison to China Chapter); key contributor to Certified Wireless USB; and Chair of DRF regulatory committee.

As a speaker, Bowles focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation He is a board member and Sr Fellow with Pepperdine's Graziadio school of business and USD's Center for Peace and Commerce.

Mark earned a BS in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M, and a Master of Science in Technology Management (eMBA) from Pepperdine University.