Bowen Pan is a Kiwi who led the creation of Facebook Marketplace, now used by over a billion monthly users, and held senior roles at Meta, Stripe, Common Room and Trade Me. He holds eight US patents.

Now back in Aotearoa, Bowen serves on the boards of Milford Asset Management and NZME, advises Revolut New Zealand and the University of Auckland Business School, and works with several high-growth startups, including Partly and Marloo. 

Bowen returned to New Zealand in 2025 and co-founded Growth NZ, an independent non-partisan group focused on the policy and structural conditions needed to lift New Zealand's long-term shared prosperity. He passionately believes in a New Zealand that grows by lifting everyone, not one that slides into managed decline. Bowen's driving conviction is that broad-based prosperity and ambitious, world-class industries are not competing priorities but the same project, and that building them is one of the most important responsibilities of his generation.