Ben Dowell served as an engineer officer in the US Army for 10 years in a variety of leadership roles, including combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. During this time, he built hard skills in leadership, planning, strategy, operations, logistics, training, and skill evaluation. After leaving active duty in 2013, Ben spent two years at the Kellogg School of Management studying finance and marketing.

After Kellogg, he joined Robert W. Baird as an investment banking associate within the consumer industry group. During two years of M&A advisory work, he executed four successful sell-side transactions at a combined valuation of $750mm, for clients such as 5.11 Tactical and OGIO. Ben left Baird to join Korn Ferry’s human capital consulting practice in 2017.

At Korn Ferry, Ben served clients across multiple solution areas, including executive skill evaluation, executive coaching, design and facilitation of executive leadership development programs, leadership measurement, and organizational diagnostic analysis.

In 2020, Ben was named President of Chamberlain Advisors, a Talent Acquisition Advisory firm based in Chicago. While at Chamberlain, Ben led the creation of the executive search practice, building it into a multi-million practice.

In 2024, Ben joined an innovative hard technology research company as President and successfully pivoted their strategy, securing new investors and business partners.

Ben earned a bachelor of science (BS) in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, a master of science (MS) in engineering management from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and a master of business administration (MBA) from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.