Bowman Heiden is the Executive Director at the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley, the Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Gothenburg, and a Fellow of the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University School of Law. Heiden is the co-founder of the Berkeley Deep Tech Innovation Lab, the Dynamic Competition Initiative, ICM Global, and the Eira Initiative. Over the past 25 years, Heiden has also managed over 150 innovation projects with industry, university research institutes, healthcare providers, and start-up ventures. Heiden holds degrees in engineering, technology management, and economics. Before turning his focus to the fields of innovation strategy and policy, Heiden played professional basketball in a number of European countries. This is why he is so tall.