Mr. Bowen is a founder of both Tellurian Biodiesel and its predecessor San Francisco Biodiesel. Mr. Bowen is a biodiesel industry leader. He currently serves as Chairman of the California Biodiesel Alliance, an organization which he co-founded with other California biodiesel industry leaders to promote biodiesel in the state. He also serves as Chairman of the San Francisco Biodiesel Taskforce, which was created as a result of legislation Mr. Bowen authored. Mr. Bowen is a member of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Clean Tech Advisory Council and is the Founding President of the San Francisco Biofuels Co-op, an all volunteer community biodiesel filling station.

Mr. Bowen was formerly the Vice President of Energy and Biofuels at Sigma Capital Group, an investment banking and advisory firm, where he specialized in biodiesel project finance. Prior to entering the biofuels industry, Mr. Bowen was a corporate attorney at Venture Law Group (now part of Heller Ehrman), Silicon Valley’s leading law firm serving technology start-ups, where he mastered managing complex transactions and assisted dozens of companies with capital raising, mergers and acquisitions and IPOs.

Mr. Bowen graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon and earned his J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law - Boalt Hall.

Mr. Bowen is the author of the blog All Things Biodiesel, which aims to foster a healthy, sustainable biodiesel industry.