Entrepreneur James Bowen visits TechHub (members only)

James Bowen is a long-time entrepreneur, now also lecturer and investor, who will be visiting Riga and as part of that trip spending a lunch time with us to talk about starting businesses. This event is for TechHub Members only. James is a Venture Partner at the incubator Hatchbrands (www.hatchbrands.com), a member of the Governing Council at CATA (http://www.cata.ca/About_Cata/Board/BowenJames.html) among other roles. His full background is as follows: 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 build an international client base. Dr. Bowen has been interviewed on the internet, radio, magazine, T.V. and newspaper. He was the sole author of two books discussing the creation and growth of high-tech product companies. He published his third book “The Entrepreneurial Effect” that drew upon his network of entrepreneurs in a collaborative approach and focused on lessons learned from entrepreneurs and investors. The second in the series was published in the fall of 2011. He is the originator of the Entrepreneurial Effect Award for student entrepreneurs. He is associated with 10 universities including 3 in Europe where he teaches MBAs technology, entrepreneurship and strategy. 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 the City of Ottawa’s technology industry development agency’s (OCRI) Innovation Leadership Team. He wrote, for three years, the monthly theme article discussing the technology industry and its management issues for Ottawa’s technology industry newspaper NationalCapitalScan. He is active with technology companies and investors and regularly provides advice to technology companies. He also sits as a mentor at the start-up incubator: Exploriem and mentor and founder at the start-up incubator: Hatchbrands. He is the inventor of an archaeological artifact locator using infrared and ultrasonic, a task management system and an underwater localization using passive sonar.