Candace (Boyer) Bowering '99 M.A. is head of global marketing communications at St. Jude Medical, located in Minneapolis, St. Paul. She manages a multimillion-dollar budget and leads a team of professionals responsible for marketing communications, events, and digital marketing for global markets in Europe, North America, Japan, and Asia Pacific. St. Jude Medical has $5.6 billion in sales, 16,000 employees worldwide, and operations and manufacturing facilities worldwide, with products sold in more than 100 countries. It is a Fortune 500 company and ranked No. 1 on FORTUNE Magazine's 2011 list of "World's Most Admired Companies" in the Medical Equipment category.
Before St. Jude Medical, Ms. Bowering was with Philips Healthcare, which offers diagnostic imaging systems, healthcare information technology solutions, and patient monitoring and cardiac devices. As the marketing communications director for North America and later as the global integrated communications campaign director, she developed global campaigns to establish Philips Healthcare as the clinical thought leader in cardiovascular and radiology science.
Ms. Bowering enjoys international travel, reading, fine arts, swimming, and photography and also serves as an adjunct faculty member for Florida Tech's College of Psychology and Liberal Arts.
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