Who We Are

Bowyer Research is an investment, macroeconomic forecasting, and corporate engagement and proxy consulting firm.

Bowyer Research engages with publicly traded companies, executing proxy votes at over 2,000 annual meetings and on roughly 20,000 proposals per year.

Bowyer Research created the Bowyer Research Proxy Voting Guidelines option for ISS, the world’s largest and most influential proxy advisory service.

Jerry Bowyer

Jerry Bowyer is President of Bowyer Research, an investment, macroeconomic forecasting, and corporate engagement and proxy consulting firm. Bowyer Research has engaged with publicly traded companies, executing proxy votes at over 2,000 annual meetings and on roughly 20,000 proposals per year.

He led Bowyer Research’s creation of the Bowyer Research Proxy Voting Guidelines option for ISS, the world’s largest proxy advisory service, and has served as a participant in ISS’ Board & Governance Policy Roundtable.

He is Resident Economist with Kingdom Advisors, he serves on the Editorial Board of Salem Communications, he is Senior Fellow in Financial Economics at the Center for Cultural Leadership and a member of the State Financial Officers Foundation’s (SFOF) national advisory committee. He also helped in the creation of Morgan Stanley’s Christian values toolkit.

He is an opinion columnist for WORLD Opinions, host of Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer podcast, author of The Maker Versus the Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics.

He is former editor of the business channel of The Christian Post, and former host of Business in the Kingdom podcast on the Edifi Podcast network. He has been Forbes.com columnist and a frequent commentator on Fox Business News, Fox News, and CNBC. He has been a contributing editor of National Review Online, The New York Sun and Townhall Magazine, and he has written for the Wall Street Journal and for numerous other publications. Jerry lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Susan.

Susan Bowyer

Susan Bowyer is the CEO of Newsmaker Productions, Inc. a television production company, which produces Pennsylvania’s premiere and longest running broadcast, syndicated politics and public policy television program, Pennsylvania Newsmakers. She has been COO of Bowyer Research for 11 years. She has extensive experience in corporate proxy voting and in the formation of corporate proxy voting guidelines across four proxy advisory services. She also has extensive experience in the process of placing shareholder proposals on corporate proxy ballots and coordinating discussions between proponents and company staff. She has a B.S. in biology from Duquesne University and has done graduate work in microbiology at Carnegie Mellon University.

Christopher Bowyer

Christopher Bowyer has 20 years experience in web development and computer programming, having sold his first web property at age 14. He has extensive experience in building and maintaining institutional investor websites since 2013, and in managing market data stream quality from some of the largest custodians in the financial world. He also has several years of experience as an editor in technology and financial journalism including with TechCentralStation, The Christian Post, and Affluent Investor Daily, as well as editing for television production and for various podcasts. He has done extensive data consulting and analytics in the area of corporate proxy voting for Committee to Unleash Prosperity and the 1792Exchange.

Jeremy Bowyer

Jeremy Bowyer has been working in macroeconomic data analysis for 20 years, beginning with his role as an analyst for the Buzzcharts column at National Review. Since then he has created a highly sophisticated probability of success program for a major asset manager and a statistical analysis tool in both R and Python. He was the lead programmer in the building of a macroeconomic forecasting tool which forecasts growth and inflation for forty countries. That program is used as one of three inputs in asset allocation by a major asset manager and was found to be more accurate than the IMF’s economic forecasts. Jeremy has experience in building programs used to build financial indices and in creating programs used for due diligence and board reporting for one of the industries largest subadvisors for ETFs. He produces weekly reports on market dynamics on both a global and domestic basis.

Hope Crock

Hope Bowyer has 10 years experience working in the institutional investment industry. She has extensive experience in representing economic and financial data in innovative infographic formats. She earned a certificate in in-bound marketing in which she has extensive experience. Hope has experience dealing with proxy voting committees and with compliance officers on numerous matters including proxy voting. She has extensive experience on the ISS proxy voting platform, and has attended roughly 200 annual shareholder meetings. She also has worked with the Broadridge voting portal and has experience in making proxy voting recommendations and in the formation of proxy voting guidelines in the ISS, Glass Lewis and Broadridge format. Hope has extensive experience in due diligence and board reporting.

Mercy Bowyer

Mercy Bowyer has earned a certificate in Probability and Statistics programming in R from U.S.C. and a certificate in Artificial Intelligence prompt engineering from Vanderbilt University. She created a sophisticated statistical significance analytical tool in R which has been used in the creation of several ETFs currently available in the market. She has produced roughly 400 position papers on matters pertaining to proxy voting and corporate governance. She reads Spanish and dabbles in several other languages. She has a long term interest in macro-economics having first read Ludwig Von Mises’ Magnum Opus, Human Action at age 14, twice.

Isaac Willour

Isaac Willour is a corporate relations analyst at Bowyer Research. Mr. Willour is an award-winning journalist, with work featured at USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and C-SPAN. He is a senior political science major at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania.