Jud Bowman

Jud is the founder and CEO of Appia and has helped grow the company into the largest cross platform, open app marketplace in the world. In March 2011, the Wall Street Journal ranked Appia #15 on its list of the Top 50 VC-backed companies out of more than 5,700.

Prior to Appia, Jud co-founded Motricity (NASDAQ:MOTR) in September 1999 and was instrumental in growing the company to more than $100 million in annual revenue and 500 employees globally. As Motricity's Chief Technology Officer, Jud was the chief architect of one of the the industry's leading mobile content delivery platforms - a platform that has delivered more than $3 billion of content to mobile phones and was named the 2006 Best Service Delivery Platform by the GSM Association, Best Content Service Delivery Platform by Mobile Entertainment Magazine and honored by Frost & Sullivan as the Premium Mobile Content Platform of the Year in 2005. In June 2010, Motricity successfullt completed a $50 million IPO co-led by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and has achieved a market capitalization as high as $1.25 billion.

Jud has been named as one of the world's "Top 100 Young Innovators" by MIT's Technology Review and one of "Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs" by BusinessWeek in 2007. He was also recognized as a winner of the Carolinas' Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in the Carolinas in 2001 and 2000. Jud is currently on leave from Stanford University, where he has been named a President's Scholar, and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.