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Vincent Bowen
@MavinCollective
Founder
Mavin, Inc
Denver, CO
Recovering Investment Banker, Returning to my Roots, Sharing my Passion for the Outdoors
Vincent's proceeds are donated to
Big Brothers Big Sisters
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Biography
With over fifteen years of investment banking origination, strategic and institutional sales experience, Vince Bowen was one of three co-founders of the first equity sales team on Wall Street dedicated to technology investors and companies at Goldman Sachs. He led solicitation, positioning, pricing and distribution of the firm’s most significant initial and secondary offerings including Ebay, Yahoo, and Deutsche Telecom. During his tenure, his group was consistently ranked the #1 Institutional Investor sales team. The group’s activities included determining strategy and execution of delivery of investment advice and advising technology origination teams on targeting of investors for sale of technology equity.
Bowen began his career in Investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs working in their Communications, Media and Technology Investment Banking Groups. He led teams soliciting and executing merger, financing and strategic advisory assignments for communications convergence companies. He also led all phases of asset sales, equity and high yield offerings. As a Principal at Robertson Stephens, Vince later led growth research sales covering eastern seaboard accounts.
Vince followed his passion for the outdoors, moving to Colorado where he transformed a regional ski clothing brand into a national ski/snowboard activewear line sold online and in over 40 specialty and national retailers before the company was sold to a major jeans and western wear producer. Vince led the build out of the marketing efforts of Correctional Healthcare Companies, the largest provider of healthcare services in jails in the country.
Vince continues to leverage his diverse background by advising companies on strategy and capital raising and is currently working on the launch of Mavin. Mavin is an outdoor community and marketplace that will connect diverse enthusiasts with outdoor experiences, each other and the exceptional organizations and brands that help get people outdoors.
Given his breadth of professional and social experiences, Vince is actively advocating for racial and economic justice by helping build economic self-sufficiency in Black and other marginalized communities in Denver and beyond as a core leader of BLM5280. Specifically, he is focused on building models of community ownership of sustainable food sources via urban farming, cooperative grocery store and other business ownership. He is also supporting sustainable models of community real estate ownership. He has worked with ally groups such as Showing up for Racial Justice, Jews as Black Allies, Montview Presbyterian Church, NE Denver Neighbors for Racial Justice, The Urban Land Conservancy, Stapleton United Neighbors and the Stapleton Foundation, to help them better understand the direct intersectional relationship between specifically centering the liberation of the most systematically marginalized as the gating factor for societal liberation as a whole.
Vince is a mentor and Board Member of George Washington HS Patriot Pairs, is on the Board of CollegeInvest, Colorado’s over $8bn 529 college savings plan manager, and has been a mentor with Colorado Youth at Risk, George Washington HS Patriot Pairs, and The Boule Scholars, and is a member of the leadership team of the New Hope Baptist Church Social Justice Ministry.
Vince graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Economics and MBA from the University of Virginia with honors. His academic preparation included a post grad year with a prestigious Robert Bosch Fellowship where he participated in the Bundesbank’s management training program and performed a strategic marketing study for BMG Music in Germany, The UK, France, Holland and Sweden. He is fluent in German and has a working knowledge of Spanish. Vince enjoys skiing, cycling, sailing, fishing, hiking, golf, and old car tinkering.
Experience
Founder
Mavin, Inc
January 2018 - present
Partner
Gara Capital
January 2012 - January 2018
Director of Marketing and Business Development
Correctional Healthcare Companies, Inc.
January 2010 - January 2012
Owner (CFO until February 2008)
Fate Clothing, Inc.
January 2003 - January 2010
Principal
Robertson Stephens
January 2000 - January 2003
Vice President, Technology Equity Research Sales
Goldman Sachs & Co
January 1997 - January 2000
Associate, Vice President, Communications, Media, and Technology Investment Banking
Goldman Sachs & Co.
January 1994 - January 1997
Fellow, Young American Leaders
Robert Bosch Foundation
January 1993 - January 1994
Education
Darden Graduate School of Business - University of Virginia
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
1991 - 1993
Harvard College
Bachelor's Degree
1981 - 1986
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
High School
1969 - 1981
Other
Languages
German Working knowledge Spanish
Diversity, equity, and inclusion ("DEI") is important in every aspect of life. We gain insight, innovation, strength, and shared humanity from a variety of skills, experience, and perspectives. It's no coincidence the two largest economies in the US are also two of the most diverse, Los Angeles and New York City (Brookings Institute, March 2020, McKinsey & Company, February 2021)
Ownership, leadership and participation that reflects the rich diversity of our world will assure the dividends from outdoor engagement accrue to us all. The path to true equity will begin when people from all walks of life are connected to, and invested in protecting our planet and its precious natural resources.
Currently, Black, Latinx and Asian participants are significantly underrepresented in outdoor recreation participation but are the most enthusiastic and fastest growing participant groups (Outdoor Foundation, 2020). Active engagement of these communities will assure robust outdoor industry growth and future participation.
By actively implementing DEI initiatives in outdoor recreation, we can create and grow organizations and enterprises which will engage more skills and perspectives to solve our most pressing climate problems, build wealth in under-invested communities and create the diverse, equitable, sustainable future we ALL deserve.
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