{"id":6611,"date":"2013-09-30T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2013-09-30T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:58:41","slug":"david-bowen-99-another-business-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/09\/30\/david-bowen-99-another-business-success\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowen \u201999 \u2013 another business success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Bowen \u201999<\/strong> is founder and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mm4.com\/about-us.php\">Market Maker 4 (MM4)<\/a>, which has proven a successful Chicago e-sourcing firm &#8212; and last week MM4 was acquired by Xchanging plc, a UK-based outsourcing services.\u00a0 Founded in 2011, MM4 now has offices in Chicago, London and Dubai.\u00a0 With the acquisition benefits, MM4 will still retain its name, its entire team, operations, and continue to be based in Chicago.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.builtinchicago.org\/blog\/e-sourcing-company-marketmaker4-acquired-22m\">Click here<\/a> for the new release.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to founding MM4, Dave held a variety of senior leadership roles at TradingPartners, PST International, and for uBid.com.<\/p>\n<p>Dave also finds time to share his professional expertise with Wabash students as a member of the evaluation panel for the business plan portion of the Wabash summer Business Immersion Program.\u00a0 This past summer Dave also hosted a Wabash student intern, and then hired\u00a0six students for\u00a0part-time internships in the fall semester.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Dave \u2013 and thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Bowen \u201999 is founder and CEO of Market Maker 4 (MM4), which has proven a successful Chicago e-sourcing firm &#8212; and last week MM4 was acquired by Xchanging plc, a UK-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}