Chris Bowick is currently President of The Bowick Group, LLC, where he provides technology, product, business, and executive-development advice and counsel to clients in the cable television and telecommunications industries.  He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of ViXS Systems and Bend Cable Communications, LLC (BendBroadband), and serves in an advisory role with Concurrent, Alpha Technologies, VQLink, itaas, and Triage Partners. He also served on the Boards of Directors of Inlet Technologies and LiquidxStream Systems until they were recently acquired by Cisco and CommScope respectively, and also recently served in an interim capacity as CTO of Charter Communications during Charter’s search for a permanent CTO.

Mr. Bowick retired as CTO from Cox Communications in June of 2009.  He joined Cox in 1998 as Vice President, Technology Development, and was named Senior Vice President of Engineering & Chief Technical Officer in 2000.  He was responsible for strategic technology planning, day-to-day technical operations, and the development and deployment of technology solutions for the company’s video, voice, high speed data and wireless products, including the development and deployment of telecommunications services, such as:  circuit-switched telephone, Voice over IP, high-speed data, digital video, HDTV, video-on-demand, and interactive television.  He was also responsible for Network Engineering and Network Operations for Cox’ nation-wide network infrastructure including its national backbone, Metropolitan Area Networks and HFC networks.

Prior to joining Cox, Mr. Bowick served as Group Vice President/Technology & Chief Technical Officer for Jones Intercable, Inc., another top-10 MSO, while simultaneously serving as President of Jones Futurex, a designer and manufacturer of triple DES, PC-based hardware encryption devices and also a contract manufacturer.  Prior to Jones, he also served as Vice President of Engineering for Scientific Atlanta’s Transmission Systems Business Division, and as a design engineer for Rockwell International, Collins Avionics Division.

Mr. Bowick earned an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado in 1997, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1977.  He is a published author of two technical reference books;  “RF Circuit Design”, and “Introduction to Satellite TV”, and also wrote a monthly column entitled “From the Headend” which appeared in CED Magazine for 8 years.  Mr. Bowick has also written and published numerous other technical papers, and is an accomplished and seasoned speaker, having been invited to speak at numerous industry conferences and events.

He is an active member, and past Board Member, of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and was a member, and past Chairman of CableLabs’ Technical Advisory Committee.  He also served on the Board of Directors for Liberate Technologies, Inc., which was a publicly traded company.

Mr. Bowick was named Communications Engineering and Design Magazine’s Man of the Year in 2002, was inducted into the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni in 2005, and received the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s (NCTA) highest honor, the Vanguard Award for Science and Technology, in 2007.

Mr. Bowick is also an FCC licensed Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator (WD4C), holds the FCC General Radiotelephone License, is an FAA Licensed Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor, and enjoys flying his plane as often as he can.