Some leaders measure their worth in spotlight moments. Gary Bowen, Chief Financial Officer of Just Ingredients Inc., measures his in the people he develops and the organizations he leaves stronger than he found them. A self-described purpose-driven leader who loves to learn, grow and build, Bowen has spent his Salt Lake City career earning a reputation for walking into companies and bringing clarity to the chaos.

Just Ingredients, a clean nutrition brand grown from Founder Karalynne Call’s personal health journey, employs roughly 200 people united by a mission to make products from real food. When Bowen arrived, he set to work doing what he does best. Within months he had cleaned up accounting records, completed an audit of the prior year, built a five-year forecast and a 13-week cash model and created a new chart of accounts for sharper reporting. He led a system implementation designed to cut manual effort, speed monthly closes and surface business trends faster, all preparing the company for the financing it needs to keep scaling beyond 50% year-over-year growth.

His financial philosophy is unusual in its optimism. Rather than acting as the executive who says no, Bowen describes himself as the leader who says let’s go, supporting creativity and innovation while maintaining the controls that keep enough cash available for both operations and ambition. He believes finance should focus on what a company can do, not what it cannot.

That mindset was forged across a distinguished run of growth-stage companies. He helped OGIO expand rapidly toward a successful sale to Callaway. As Chief Financial Officer of RizePoint he relocated the company to Salt Lake City and briefly stepped into the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Revenue Officer roles during a leadership transition. At Cotopaxi he joined the team that grew the brand tenfold across roughly five years, helped secure multiple funding rounds and, over a single weekend amid a banking crisis, secured a new relationship with a major institution that protected the company.

A Titan 100 Honoree among the 2026 Salt Lake City class, Bowen finds his deepest satisfaction not in awards, which he admits he rarely seeks, but in relationships and mentorship. He served for years on an undergraduate alumni board at a leading business school, teaching classes, reviewing resumes and conducting mock interviews to prepare students for their futures. He now sits on the board of a Utah nonprofit providing rehabilitation for people with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, an organization that helped his own family navigate his son’s recovery from paralysis.

For Bowen, the most rewarding achievements are watching team members succeed and take on bigger roles. Great outcomes, he insists, are always the product of great teams, and when the right people are in place, almost anything becomes possible.

Editorial Note: This profile reflects information submitted by the honoree at the time of their Titan 100 recognition in August 2026. Professional roles and affiliations may have changed since publication.