Hugh Bowen

        Hugh Bowen worked as a marketing manager in the videogame and computer industry from 1982 to 1992.   He developed and marketed over 125 games for Activision, Epyx, and Sega.  He was a key marketing executive at Sega during its meteoric rise from a near zero to a 55 percent U.S. market share, when reportedly it was the fastest growing U.S. consumer company ever.  Since 1992 he's run Bowen and Associates, a research firm that studies high tech products, consumer electronics, software and web sites.  

        Hugh publishes the interactive entertainment newsletter, The Bowen Report.  He is a frequent speaker at industry trade shows, including E3 and the Software Publisher's Association.  He has also been published in the trade journal Games Business.

        Education:    Undergraduate degree, English Literature, Harvard University, 1973.   MBA, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981.