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Co-creator, Co-Executive Producer, Partner, and Cast
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Co-creator, Co-Executive Producer, Partner, and Cast
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San Diego County, California, United States
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Mark Bowles is listed as Co-creator, Co-Executive Producer, Partner, and Cast at VCs in a Van, LLC, a company with 1 employees, based in San Diego County, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Mark Bowles.
Mark Bowles previously worked as Advisory Board at Singular Genomics and Member of the Board at La Jolla Institute For Allergy And Immunology. Mark Bowles holds Master Of Science, Technology Management from Pepperdine University.
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About Mark Bowles
Serial entrepreneur (co-founder of 7 venture-backed start-ups), inventor, 100+ patents (25 Issued US patents, 77 issued International patents, dozens pending), product designer (20+ awards including a Crunchies), marketer, and scientist (NSF grantee/PI). Mark has 25+ yrs in semiconductors, tech, retail, and biotech. He's founded 7 start-ups, raised 18 VC rounds ($250M+). Before VCs in a Van, Mark was a founder at Truvian; ecoATM ($350M acq); VP Mktg at Vativ (Entropic acq); Staccato (VP Mktg); BOPS, President/COO (Altera acq.). Prior to this he helped form and fund Power Computing ($130M acq by Apple '96); Panorama Designs (acq by Motorola '96); and BlueSteel Networks (2000 acq by Broadcom for $110M). Bowles spent 6 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. Mark has also been a 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. Mark has been an invited guest lecturer on entrepreneurism and innovation at Duke, Stanford, UCSD, USD, SDSU, USC, Pepperdine, Hult, Wharton, Harvard, and Texas A&M. Mark 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. Raised in Southeast Texas by Greek Orthodox, cajun, hippies, Mark now lives in La Jolla, CA with his wife and 3 sons.Specialties: Start-ups, VC fund-raising, business planning, building teams, sales, marketing, business development, speaking, writing, microprocessors, wireless ICs, ultrawideband, HDMI, RFIC, communication ICs, eWaste, recycling, retail kiosks, genomics, biotech, diagnostics.
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Vcs In A Van, Llc
28 roles · 25 years
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Jun 2016 - Present
Member Of The Board
CurrentLJI is one of the top research organizations in the world and is at the forefront of discover on how the immune system works to fight disease. Their bold vision statement is "Life Without Disease".
Feb 2016 - Present
Senior Fellow And Member Of Graziadio School Of Business Board Of Visitors
CurrentSenior Fellow and Member of the Board of Visitors for Graziadio School of Business
Jun 2011 - Present
Co-Creator, Co-Executive Producer, Partner, And Cast
Current
Nov 2017 - Present
Board Member - Usd Center For Peace And Commerce
CurrentBoard member for the Center for Peace and Commerce.
Jun 2011 - Present
Jun 2014 - Mar 2019
Chairman Of The Board
Current
Aug 2017 - Present
Advisory Board
Current
Mar 2019 - Present
Advisor
Current
Galway City Innovation District
Happy to be an advisor to the brilliant team in Galway City that is building out their already thriving innovation district.
Aug 2015 - Present
Xconomist
CurrentXconomists are the group of informal editorial advisors who contribute ideas, feedback, and commentary to help shape coverage in each of our 10 Xconomy regions. Our mission, which we achieve with your help, is to find the best stories in each of our regions deserving of reading by our elite national and international audience: Our credo is to find "local.
Jul 2015 - Present
Board Member
Edico Genome
I am a founding, independent board member for Edico and seed investor in my good friend and partner, Pieter van Rooyen, the founder and CEO of Edico Genome.
Aug 2013 - Jul 2018
Co Founder
Truvian Sciences
Truvian Sciences is a healthcare company at the intersection of diagnostics and consumer tech. Truvian is developing an FDA-cleared automated system that produces lab-accurate results for a full suite of health tests from a single, small sample of blood. Powered by patented technologies and intelligent integration, Truvian’s benchtop solution delivers an.
Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
Mentor - Robotics Accelerator Qualcomm/Techstars
Qualcomm/TechStars Robotics Accelerator in San Diego
Dec 2014 - Dec 2016
Founder
ecoATM's Automated eCycling Stations automate the tbuy-back process for used consumer electronics, by electronically and visually inspecting devices, and providing instant cash. By finally making the resell/recycle process convenient and profitable for all stakeholders (Consumers, OEMs, and Retailers) ecoATM will dramatically increase participation in.
Aug 2008 - Aug 2015
Co-Chair Of The Ecocom Sig
Commnexus
Co-chair of the Commnexus EcoCom SIG http://www.commnexus.org/programs/special-interest-groups/sig_2007071841228.php
Jun 2011 - Jul 2015
Principal Investigator
Received a SBIR Phase 1 grant and an SBIR Phase 2 grant from the NSF to research the use of machine vision and artificial intelligence in identifying and grading condition of used mobile electronics in order to automate the buy-back and recycling of these devices on a mass scale. The research was successful and the technology was deployed is over 2000.
Jan 2010 - Jan 2013
Limited Partner
Camp Ventures
2001 - 2009
~8 yrs
Co-Founder, Advisory Board Member
Fulgeo
Jul 2007 - Dec 2008
Vp Mktg & Bus. Dev.
Hired to help develop and execute M&A process to sell company.
Nov 2007 - Mar 2008
Board Member
Wimedia Alliance
Provided governance of the organization as it defined a specification for an UWB wireless communications standard.
2004 - Nov 2007
Co-Founder, Vp Of Mktg And Bus. Dev
Mr. Bowles has more than 18 years in the semiconductor industry. He has been involved in the formation and funding of 5 technology start-ups and has successfully raised 11 rounds of Venture Capital financing totaling more than $110M raised. Prior to co-founding Staccato in 2002 he was most recently co-founder, President, COO and director of BOPS, Inc (sold.
Sep 2002 - Oct 2007
Co-Founder, President / Coo
Mar 1996 - Jan 2002
Co-Founder
Bluesteel Networks
A fabless start-up focused on IPsec and UBsec silicon, it was acquired by Broadcom within the first year of inception for $110M. My role was to help organize the business plan, the initial fund raising, and the initial team building. I also invested some of the original see money.
May 1999 - Jan 2000
Co-Founder
Panorama Designs Inc
Panaoram Designs was a MAC clone company, the first to focus on a portable design. The team was a collection of some of the members of the original team at Apple that designed the very successful first generation of PowerBook laptops. Motorola Computer Group bought the company shortly after inception for about $4.25M dollars.
Feb 1996 - Mar 1996
Vp Mspi, Powerpc Market Dev Mgr
I was a primary evangelist for the PowerPC microprocessors
Jan 1990 - Jan 1996
Jun 1987 - Mar 1990
Product Manager - Motorola
Jun 1987 - Jul 1988
4 education records
Mark Bowles education
Master Of Science, Technology Management
Pepperdine University
Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Distribution
Texas A&M University
Biology
Lamar University
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Forest Park High School
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Mark Bowles works for VCs in a Van, LLC.
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Mark Bowles is listed as Co-creator, Co-Executive Producer, Partner, and Cast at VCs in a Van, LLC.
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Mark Bowles is based in San Diego County, California, United States while working with VCs in a Van, LLC.
What companies has Mark Bowles worked for?
Mark Bowles has worked for Vcs In A Van, Llc, Singular Genomics, La Jolla Institute For Allergy And Immunology, Pepperdine University, and University Of San Diego.
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Mark Bowles holds Master Of Science, Technology Management from Pepperdine University.
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