Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 3, 2004
ROBERT C. BOWEN, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Scientific
Learning Corporation, brings more than three decades of consistent
success in building market leadership and shareholder value in the
education market. He served as Senior Vice President and an officer of
National Computer Systems (NCS). In his last assignment as President of
NCS Education Software and Services, he built this K-12 business into
the market leader of enterprise software solutions with a 40% market
share. NCS was sold to Pearson Plc in the fall of 2000. Prior to joining
Scientific Learning as Chairman and CEO in June 2002, he served as a
strategic consultant to leading providers of instructional and
administrative technology solutions in education. Mr. Bowen has also
held senior executive positions with other leading education companies
including 17 years with McGraw-Hill. He last served as Executive Vice
President of McGraw-Hill's Education and Training group, which included
seven divisions with total revenues of approximately $350 million. Early
in his career, Mr. Bowen was a high school math teacher, a coach and a
school district administrator. Profile
Mr. Bowen: Scientific Learning is in what's called the 'reading
intervention' market in the K-12 North American marketplace. We
