Dr. James Bowen will be speaking on 'Entrepreneurship' to MBA 439 full time students (and to all those interested in this topic)  on March 19 at 1 PM through skype in the MBA board room and his presentation is  attached for ready reference.

Those who wish to attend this session should register their names with  Mere so that accordingly arrangements can be made.

Light refreshments will be served.

Brief Profile of the speaker

At age 21 and while still in undergraduate university James co-founded a software company. Over the next 20 years he and his co-founders grew an international client base. His management experience has covered all aspects of an organization. 

Dr. Bowen has been interviewed on the internet, radio, magazine, T.V. and newspaper both in North America and Europe. He was the sole author of two books discussing the creation and growth of high-tech product companies. He recently published his third book “The Entrepreneurial Effect”, which drew upon his wide network of entrepreneurs in a collaborative approach, focused on lessons learned from entrepreneurs and investors. The second in the series was published in 2011. 

He is associated with 10 universities including 3 in Europe where he teaches MBAs technology, leadership, marketing, supply chain management, project management, entrepreneurship and strategy. In the last decade, he has taught over 120 courses to over 5000 students.

His volunteer work includes being a member of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance’s (CATA) governing council and the initiator and leader of CATA’s Action Committee on Entrepreneurship and his city’s technology industry development agency’s Innovation Leadership Team. He wrote, for three years, the monthly theme article discussing the technology industry and its management issues for a technology industry newspaper.

He is active with technology companies and investors and regularly provides advice to technology companies, and is a mentor and co-founder at a start-up incubator: Hatchbrands

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