Trey Bowles

Founder, Managing Director

2025 - Current

The Bowles Investment Group (BIG) has a mission to identify and support exceptional businesses at pivotal stages of their growth. We actively seek partnerships with seed-stage and Series A companies demonstrating strong initial traction, dynamic leadership, and compelling business models. Additionally, we evaluate opportunities with established companies generating $1–$5 million in EBITDA, considering investment or acquisition to accelerate their growth. Through strategic capital infusion, growth expertise, and targeted sales strategies, we provide value-added support to help businesses achieve their full potential and create enduring success. visit the Bowles Investment Group at www.bowlesinvestmentgroup.com

Advisory Board Member

2024

Trey serves as a strategic advisor to Morrison Seger who offers investors unique opportunities to gain access to a diverse group of industry-leading early and late-stage brands across various sectors. We believe in matching the perfect group of investors with the right brands, to create a mutually beneficial partnership. MoSe brings together a dedicated internal strategic investor and advisory database, coupled with knowledge of the broader consumer landscape to level up for the next stage of growth, all while anticipating liquidity events.

Member

2024

Advisory Board Member

2024

The SMU Impact Lab serves the University’s entrepreneurial students, faculty and alumni in the spaces of social, creative and arts entrepreneurship. Through investments, experiential learning opportunities, course work, cross-disciplinary educational workshops, and structured mentoring, the SMU Impact Lab will invest in those who desire to have a net positive impact in the world through entrepreneurial action.

Advisory Board Member

2024

Leading the future of healthcare with personalized at-home testing solutions. Backed by science and enabled by technology, imaware offers both customer-ready at-home tests and plug-and-play partner solutions to reach more patients and empower the health of humanity.

Co-Founder and President

2019

InnoCity Partners provides counsel to organizations across the public and private sector to design, build and execute smart city programs. Executive leadership brings expertise in strategy, coalition-building, innovation in process improvement, citizen engagement and taking projects from concept to implementation.

Chairman Emeritus

2013

The DEC is a 501c3 that was created to help entrepreneurs start, build and grow their businesses through education, mentorship, community and advocacy. We provide entrepreneurs with education, training, mentorship, programs/events, promotion and access to capital.

Cofounder and CEO

2013 - 2018

Trey helped establish the Dallas Entrepreneur Center (DEC), a central location for entrepreneurs to learn how to start, build and grow businesses through training, education, mentorship, promotion, and capital investment. As Co-Founder and CEO, Trey leads strategy, vision, and drives the overall planning and development efforts for the DEC. Trey oversees the day-to-day operations of the DEC, including management of all areas of the business. Trey also works closely with the DEC staff to engage executives, mentors and other valuable experts within the Dallas community and across the country to maintain a strong and robust resource offering for DEC startups/members).

CoFounder

2015

The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a public-private partnership dedicated to the design and execution of a smart cities plan for the City of Dallas. Our mission is to develop a scalable smart cities model for the City of Dallas that leverages our distinctive strengths for the benefit of Dallas that leaves a legacy of innovation, sustainability and collaboration for future generations. Our goal is to elevate Dallas as a city that is not only prepared for – but a driving force in shaping – the future of cities, and providing opportunities for prosperity for its citizens.

Founding Advisor

2021

AllOY is a marine-tech startup that is bringing ADAS and autonomous technology to recreational boating.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

2011

I am an teaching two courses on Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct Professor in the Meadow School of Arts. The goal of these courses is to provide practical and real world experience to the students in hopes of adding a complimentary business/entrepreneurship approach to the wonderful training the students are receiving in their specific craft or disciplines in the area of dance, theater, film, music or advertising.