Adam Bowen (born 1974/1975) is an American businessman, and the co-founder (with

James Monsees James Monsees is an American businessman, and the co-founder (with Adam Bowen) and former chief product officer of Juul Labs, an electronic cigarette company. Monsees is an alumnus of Whitfield School in St. Louis, Missouri. Monsees earned a ...

) and currently advisor at Juul Labs, an

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company. Bowen earned a BA in physics from

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalists ...

, followed by an MS in product design from

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. Bowen and Monsees founded vaporizer company

Pax Labs Pax Labs (stylized as PAX Labs) is an American vaporizer (inhalation device), electronic vaporizer company founded in 2007 that markets the Pax vaporizers. The company developed the Juul (pronounced jewel) e-cigarette. Juul Labs was spun out as a ...

in 2007. Juul was spun off from Pax Labs in 2017. In December 2018, following tobacco company

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taking a 35% stake in Juul, Bowen's net worth increased from an estimated $730 million to more than $1.1 billion. After subsequent write-downs of the value of Juul, ''

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'' no longer considers Bowen a billionaire as of 2020. Bowen is married, with three children, and lives in San Mateo, California.

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