Chris Bowers serves as Chief Innovation and Information Officer at Morrison Foerster, where he is responsible for advancing the firm’s global AI, innovation, and digital transformation strategy to drive growth, efficiency, and client success.

As Chief Innovation and Information Officer, Chris plays a pivotal role in developing and implementing MoFo’s digital and technology strategy, embedding AI and automation into the firm’s core business functions, and creating innovative capabilities that support evolving operating models across the global platform. His focus centers on driving end-user (and attorney) productivity while balancing the firm’s cybersecurity needs. He joins Morrison Foerster after serving for five years as Global Chief Information Officer of Boston Consulting Group (BCG). As BCG’s CIO, Chris led a strategic firmwide IT transformation, shifting from a legacy, on-premises model to a secure, cloud-based, product-driven organization focused on end-user experience, measurable business outcomes, and the adoption of AI-driven capabilities. In prior roles at BCG, Chris managed its global product engineering and cloud-based infrastructure functions and served on both the Finance and IT leadership teams.

At BCG, Chris also served on the Global Operations Leadership Team and the Senior Talent Development Committee. He co-sponsored BCG’s strategic AI initiative, which was recognized with the 2025 CIO 100 Award for its generative AI-powered solution designed to streamline and accelerate slide creation.

Before joining BCG, Chris spent 11 years at EMC Corporation (now part of Dell Technologies), where he held several leadership roles, including serving as Business Unit CIO for the global enterprise sales and services division. Earlier in his career, he held roles at several business and data analytics firms.

Chris’s leadership has been widely recognized, including being named Boston CIO of the Year (Global Category) in 2016 by Inspire CIO, selected from a pool of 85 nominated CIOs and IT executives.

Chris received his B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.