ERIC BOWMAN

An entrepreneur in Charleston, South Carolina, Eric Bowman founded software company SPARC in 2009. Under his leadership, the company produced high-quality products and services to support commercial, federal, and defense contracting customers. In 2011, the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce named SPARC number one on its annual list of best places to work in South Carolina in the small to medium-sized company category. Eric Bowman served as president and chief executive officer of the company until 2015, when he exited via a sale to a Fortune 500 company.