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Jud Bowman is a serial entrepreneur. He recently sold his second company, Appia, Inc., the leading mobile user acquisition network, which has delivered more than 100 million mobile app installs globally.

In March, Appia was acquired by Digital Turbine in a stock deal worth approximately $100 million. As part of the transaction, Jud agreed to join Digital Turbine’s Board of Directors and also became one of their largest individual shareholders.

Jud has been named one of the world’s “Top 100 Young Innovators” by MIT’s Technology Review and one of “Tech’s Best Young Entrepreneurs” byBusinessWeek. He was also recognized as a winner of the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” award in the Carolinas in 2001 and 2010. The 36-year-old is by far the youngest member of the Research Triangle Foundation Board.

The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics graduate started his first company in 1999 as a high school senior with his classmate Taylor Brockman. Because of that early shared experience, the two created the Bowman-Brockman Endowment for Entrepreneurship & Advanced Research in 2011. They donated $100,000 to support the next generation of creative students.

After high school graduation, Jud briefly attended Stanford University before taking a now indefinite leave of absence to return to one of his favorite zip codes, 27713, to continue pursuing his entrepreneurial dreams. His first office was on Meridian Parkway right on the edge of Research Triangle Park.