Background
Bowles, Erskine Boyce was born on August 8, 1945 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
Bowles, Erskine Boyce was born on August 8, 1945 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, University North Carolina, 1967. Master of Business Administration, Columbia University, 1969.
With Morgan Stanley & Company, New York City, Bowles Hollowell Conner & Company, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1975-1993. Administrator Small Business Administration, Washington, 1993-1994. Assistant to the President & deputy chief of staff The White House, 1994—1995, chief of staff to President, 1996—1998.
Partner Forstmann Little & Company, New York City, 1999—2001. Managing director, co-founder Carousel Capital Company, LLC, 1999—2001, senior advisory, since 2002. Chairman Erskine Bowles & Company, LLC, since 2003.
Deputy special envoy for Tsunami Recovery United Nations, 2005. President University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 2006. Co-chairman National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility & Reform, since 2010.
Board directors Merck & Company, 1999—2001, VF Corporation, 1999—2001, First Union Corporation, 1999—2001, Wachovia Corporation, 2001, Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, 2003, Cousins Properties, since 2003, General Motors Corporation, 2005—2009, Morgan Stanley, since 2005.
President Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Democratic Senate nominee, North Carolina, 2002, 04.
Son of Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles. Married Crandall Close, 1971. 3 children.