Mr. Bowden was born in Elmwood Park, Illinois on April 26, 1946. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1969 and an M.B.A. in marketing and finance in 1972 from The Harvard Business School where he was the Henry B. Cabot Fellow in finance. He then spent a number of years independently arranging the acquisition, sales and restructuring of small- and medium-sized businesses.

In 1980, he became a telecommunications consultant as a principal of Booz, Allen Hamilton in New York and San Francisco, and was a founding member of its Technology Management Services practice. He joined Arthur D. Little in 1986 as director of the firm's telecommunications consulting practice.

In 1988, he joined The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. as vice president and director. He founded BCG's telecommunications practice and directed it until he joined NYNEX. While at BCG, Mr. Bowden helped NYNEX develop strategies for the corporation and its business units, and helped direct the corporation's re-engineering of its telephone service processes.

Among the issues on which Mr. Bowden provided consulting services are the divestiture of AT&T's local exchange companies; deregulation's impact on the communications monopolies of European and Pacific Rim nations; business development strategies for cellular and PCS service providers; the impact of the convergence of the telephone, television, computer and entertainment industries on network and content providers; and process re-engineering. His clients have included many of the world's largest telecommunications companies.

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