About
Steven Bowen
Steven J Bowen is the creator of Total Value Optimization in the supply chain consulting field. He is a successful sales, marketing and business leader who founded, lead and built Maine Pointe LLC, a very successful supply chain consulting firm, which he sold to a major international corporation a few years ago. Steve has been continuously learning about self-development through hundreds of books and thousands of recordings for over forty years.
Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a minor in Economics & Business Administration from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Today, Steve resides in Duxbury, MA with his wife Deb. Their family is nearby, his son, Grant, daughter Natalie and their families including three grandchildren.
Steven Bowen is a decisive executive leader with over 30 years’ P&L experience plus delivering in turnarounds and high-growth results for businesses, both public and private equity owned companies. Additionally, his experience is in high growth situations in multiple industries across the world. His success has been achieved through bold, collaborative leadership to quickly transform organization vision and mission into exceptional team and business results.
Early career was with two prominent corporations before gaining experience in sales and marketing consulting, training over one thousand sales and management people globally. Steve’s career track took him back into sales and marketing leadership before returning to consulting in the supply chain arena. In 2004 he founded Maine Pointe LLC. Maine Pointe was sold in a very successful transaction in June 2019 to a public corporation in Geneva, Switzerland. As Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Maine Pointe, the firm earned multiple accolades from Forbes Magazine with Steve becoming a Member of Forbes Business Council. Additionally, Maine Pointe was recognized by Consulting U.S. as the top supply chain consulting firm two years running. In 2021, he was recognized as one of the consulting industry’s top CEOs by CEO Magazine.
In 2017 Steve published his first Book, Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain into a Competitive Weapon. The book describes the pressure today’s corporate leaders are under to deliver differentiated, lasting performance – fast. “Total Value Optimization” and the TVO Framework, resting on a foundation of data analytics, was recognized by the Global Supply Chain Institute as the best methodology they have seen to achieve integrated supply chain excellence in logistics, operations, and procurement.