Bowen Banbury
Bowen has a comprehensive background in executive management and strategic operations. He is an internationally accomplished entrepreneur and visionary business champion with expertise in founding and growing successful organizations. Bowen founded and grew several startups to more than a million a month in revenue inn under ten years and sold them in the mid-eight figures.
Bowen has overseen several businesses under the auspices of Thunderbird Capital LLC. These businesses operate – or operated – wireless dealerships in three states, a travel agency, rental properties, a vehicle leasing company, a uniform company, a $100m records management roll-up company, and an executive coaching organization.
He was the founder, President, and CEO of the DocuVault companies, which provided records management, data security and document shredding services for all sizes of companies. Bowen built DocuVault into a regional player and national force in the records management industry, serving customers in more than 20 states and three countries. The extraordinary growth in DocuVault led to its strategic acquisition by Iron Mountain.
While owning and operating the DocuVault group of companies, he received multiple awards, including five-time awards for Fortune 5000 Fastest Growing Businesses, the only company to win both Emerging Business of the Year and Small Business of the Year from the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, five-time Fasted Growing Small Company from the Denver Business Journal, the ColoradoBiz Top Company of the Year, five time winner of the Inc. Magazine 100 fastest Growing Inner-City Companies, and four time winner of both ColoradoBiz Magazine’s Top 50 Family-Owned Companies and Colorado’s Top Private Companies.
Prior to founding DocuVault, Bowen Banbury held the position of Vice President of the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC), an association of Pacific region Fortune 100 CEOs, headquartered in Honolulu. PBEC was the “voice of business” in the region, cooperating with the annual APEC governmental forum and represent more than 20 countries, from Chile to China to Indonesia to Australia.
A significant contributor to the community, Bowen served on the Board of the Denver/Boulder Better Business Bureau for seven years, including as the Chairman. He is also a former Director of National Records Centers (NRC) and Professional Records and Information Services Management (PRISM). In addition, he has been a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), The Executive Committee (TEC), and Vistage.
Bowen is a certified exit planning adviser (CEPA) from the Exit Planning Institute and the Exit Factor and is a certified executive coach with The Alternative Board (TAB). Via a holding company, he owns the Denver East territory of TAB, and also serves as a consultant with Exit Factor.
Bowen holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Bachelor of Arts from Occidental College. His strategic and financial expertise combined with his skills in business development, marketing and operations have added considerable value to the organizations he has served from company startups through high growth cycles and economic change. His exceptional leadership has ensured the rapid growth and success of the organizations he has supported.