Trey Bowles

Trey Bowles is a serial and multi-exited entrepreneur, an investor with more than 50 portfolio companies, an educator, and family office owner at Bowles Investment Group (BIG).  Trey most recently served as Managing Director for the Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator program and the Techstars Anywhere (remote/virtual) Spring program.

With roles in building both for-profit and non-profit endeavors, Trey has vast experience in starting, building, and growing businesses and helping others do the same.  He was at the helm of the popular p2p file-sharing company Morpheus, which had more than 110 million downloads of its application in the first year of operations, and helped change the future of the music and film industries.  He took over and sold Big Jump Media Inc to Salem Communications (NYSE: SALM).

Trey is also the co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Dallas Entrepreneur Center, a non-profit organization focused on aggregating entrepreneurs and helping aspiring entrepreneurs start, build, and grow their businesses.  He also started Engage Dallas with the City of Dallas to engage culturally diverse and civically-minded young professions to make an impact on the city.

Trey launched the entrepreneurship department at SMU in the Meadows School of Arts where he still serves as an adjunct professor.  He was also appointed by Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE).

Trey lives in Dallas, TX with his bride and three kids.