Mr Owens joined AEA Holdings Asia on April 1, 2006 and is a managing director of AEA Investors in Hong Kong.
Prior to joining AEA, he was chief executive officer and vice chairman of Nortel. Mr Owens had served on the board of directors of Nortel and took the helm of Nortel following the disclosure of accounting issues in April 2004. Under his leadership, Nortel was reestablished as a strong, stable, ethical Fortune 500 company growing strongly and on the path to leadership in the telecommunications and enterprise IT global marketplace.
Prior to joining Nortel, Mr Owens was chief executive officer and chairman of Teledesic LLC and before that, he was the president, chief operating officer and vice chairman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the largest employee-owned high-technology company in the US. Prior to joining SAIC, Mr Owens was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the second-ranking military officer in the US. He had responsibility for the reorganization and restructuring of the armed forces in the post-Cold War era.
From 1991 to 1993, Mr Owens was the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments. He served as commander of the US Sixth Fleet in 1990 and 1991 during Operation Desert Storm in Iraq. Between 1988 and 1991, Mr Owens served as senior military assistant to Secretaries of Defense Frank Carlucci and Dick Cheney, the senior military position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Mr Owens has served on the board of directors of nineteen public companies and has founded two technology companies, Lumera and Extend America. He is on the board of Daimler Chrysler AG, Polycom, Wipro, Embarq and AEA Investors LP. Mr Owens is a member of several philanthropic boards including the Carnegie Foundation, Brookings Institution and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr Owens has a BA and MS in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and an MS in management from George Washington University.
