About Us The Hawkshurst Group was formed to a major problem with the consulting services in the market today.  While there are many consulting companies that claim to address strategy, many of the people working for those firms have never had line of business accountability for revenue and results.  You need a consultant that shares your sense of urgency, but does so in a way that works with your team rather than aginst them. We have found that in addition to developing a successful strategy, companies must consider the way each of their constituencies will exhibit the strategy, and must align all of the major business functions and resources with the strategy.  Eric Bowles – Managing Director Eric Bowles is the founder and managing director of The Hawkshurst Group.  His experience in the management consulting business was developed over more than twenty years as Senior Vice President for Bank of America, as Director of Corporate Development for a private outsourcing company, and as Vice President of a global non-profit organization.  Mr. Bowles holds an MBA from Emory University's Goizueta Business School and a BBA in Finance from the University of Georgia.  Mr. Bowles began his career with Bank of America in Commercial Banking.  As sales manager in Atlanta, his leadership led a 25% increase in market share in four years as the bank became the market leader.  Following the formation of NationsBank, Mr. Bowles led development of the commercial banking group’s nationwide technology platform.  This effort was the bank’s first CRM system and included information from eighty-four product applications being consolidated into a single database and delivered to the desktop of 2500 employees in ninety locations across eight states.  After a successful systems implementation, Mr. Bowles held a leadership role in the re-engineering of commercial banking.  This effort included the creation and delivery of investment banking services to commercial banking clients and resulted in doubling the ROE of the line of business.  Following completion of the re-engineering program, Mr. Bowles was named Senior HR Manager and assigned responsibility for 4000 employees and line of business responsibility across four states.  Mr. Bowles left Bank of America in 2001 to take an ownership interest in a private outsourcing company and led acquisitions and corporate development.  Responsibilities included leadership of all M&A activities from identification of acquisition candidates through closing and integration.  Through his leadership, the company was able to acquire and integrate the business of a competitor using it as a springboard to increase revenues by 25% in the first year through creation of a new division. Mr. Bowles was retained by a global non-profit organization to develop and implement a research function and online knowledge center.  Through his leadership, the reasearch function established industry leading research in corporate real estate, workplace and sustainability.  The responsibility was completely self funded through the sale of corporate memberships to more than ninety Fortune 500 companies.  Mr. Bowles also developed and implemented related sales and marketing programs, hired sales staff, and led strategic planning.  In addition to achievement of development goals, Bowles developed email, telephone, and web based marketing campaigns.  Among successes was a conference registration campaign that generated a 700% ROI and was recognized by both the Atlanta Marketing Association and the Atlanta Chapter of the Direct Marketing Association as the Best Email Campaign of the year The Hawkshurst Group was established in 2003 in order to help businesses improve their performance through better alignment of functions and constituencies with strategy.   Mr. Bowles currently or previously has served as a director on corporate boards of both for profit and non-profit organizations.  Non-profit organizations include GSAE, NANPA, GNPA, PPA, CoreNet Global, the American Red Cross and Trevecca Nazarene University.  He is currently a member of the leadership team for Nikonians, a 250,000 member global non-profit organization. On a personal note, Mr. Bowles is an award winning photographer, a gourmet cook, and a single digit handicap golfer.