Robert A. Bowman served for 17 years as President/

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("MLBAM"). Media reports in late 2017 alleged his departure from the MLBAM resulted from a decade of inappropriate behavior, ranging from multiple consensual intimate relationships with subordinates and leading a "culture of partying and heavy drinking with employees outside the office." MLBAM manages online activities for

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including the MLBAM@Bat video streaming applications for Smartphones, pad computing devices and the like. From 1995–2000, he was ITT's President/Chief Operating Officer. From 1991–95, he was also ITT's CFO. From 1983–90, Bowman was

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's State Treasurer and was widely credited with helping fuel the state's economic recovery, including from a 1987 Public Sector Consultants' profile that "Wall Street smiled on Michigan's improved fiscal condition," leading to national notoriety for Bowman. In 2010 it was reported that he was considering a run for governor of Michigan.

Education

Bowman graduated from Harvard College in 1977 and the Wharton School of Business in 1979.

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Bowman was instrumental in spearheading the development of MLB's At Bat app for the iPhone,

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, Android, Kindle, etc.

Bowman Patents

Bowman is named as a co-inventor on the following U.S.

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: U.S. Patent No. 8,121,872: System and Method for Allocating Seats for a Ticketed Event U.S. Patent No. 8,121,712: System and Method for Determining an Offensive, Defensive, and Cumulative Efficiency of a Sports Team U.S. Patent No. 8,045,956: System and Method for Venue-to-Venue Messaging

References

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