Carlos Bowden, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Bowden has twenty-one years comprehensive executive experience in business startup and growth environments. He is skilled in organizational/ infrastructure development, financial planning, and developing staff and managers for business growth.

He has experience in managing to a liquidity event as CFO of DiscoveryCom, Inc., a startup maker of DSL broadband access systems, which was sold to Nokia in 2000 at a valuation of $220 million. From 2004 to 2005 he served as CFO of Operon Biotechnologies, Inc., a $40 million global biotech manufacturer, from its inception as a leveraged buyout through its successful relocation of its North American manufacturing plants and corporate headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama.

From 1990 to 1999, as VP/GM of Bowden Industries, Inc., a $10 million designer and manufacturer of automated industrial equipment and chemicals, he had executive responsibilities for manufacturing, finance, sales, marketing, and IT. He successfully managed production expansions averaging 100 percent per year, establishing the company as one of the largest in its industry.

As a consultant, Mr. Bowden has advised clients in high-tech and financial services industries on financial, operational, and general corporate matters.

BS Mechanical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University
MBA, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University