Donnie Fowler

CEO and Founder, Dogpatch Strategies

Description

Donnie Fowler has built a career in technology and politics through his work in the Clinton White House, at the Federal Communications Commission, as vice president at TechNet in Silicon Valley, and with political campaigns across the United States. Donnie earned a perfect 3-0 record leading presidential battleground states (Connecticut'96, Michigan'04, & Indiana'08). He was Al Gore's National Field Director in 2000 and General Wesley Clark's national campaign manager in 2004. Donnie finished second to Howard Dean in the contest for Democratic National Chairman after the 2004 presidential election. 

On the business side, Donnie's work has included business development and policy support for clients as varied as Facebook, Stanford University, PredPol, and the Solar Energy Industries Association. He represented the clean tech industry on the 2010 campaign to stop Prop 23, Big Oil's effort to overturn California's clean energy and climate laws. Donnie is a regular contributor to former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm's "The War Room" on CurrentTV. Originally from South Carolina, he now lives in San Francisco with his wife Heather Stephenson and their one-year-old daughter.