Bruce Bowden is Chief Financial Officer at Rocket Software. He focuses on enhancing shareholder value by accelerating growth and expanding profit margins. Over the course of my career, I’ve developed and leveraged business, financial and legal acumen with operations leadership to drive organic and external growth across diverse industries and geographies. He is a trusted business strategist, who fosters collaboration, and who motivates internal and external stakeholders to drive change, balance strategic priorities and maximize business results. With extensive M&A, joint venture and capital market experience, some of his contributions include:

 Creating strategies to drive sustainable revenue growth for telecommunications, advanced technology and CPG businesses. Growing revenue at Neuf Cegetel from $30M to $1.3B. Nearly doubling revenue at Nuance.

 Developing and implementing strategies that repositioned companies and drove corporate growth through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships.

 Completing more than 100 transactions worth more than $14B in deal value.

 Leading numerous highly successful capital market transactions, including IPO offerings, debt and equity financing, and convertible stock transactions. Raising $1B in five rounds of financing and increasing Treasury performance tenfold.

Specialties:
Strategic Business Planning | Market Entry | Repositioning |M&A | Strategic Alliances | Partnerships | Financial Valuation | Deal Structure | Corporate Venture Investing | Leadership Development | Budget Management | Business Optimization | Transformation | Change Management | Capital Markets | Debt and Equity Transactions | Treasury | Cash Management | Investor Relations | Corporate Law | IP | Litigation | Operations Leadership