Nick Bowes

Title: Chief Financial Officer

Nick Bowes joined the Big 12 as Chief Financial Officer in 2025. Bowes comes to the league from the University of Louisville, where he served as Deputy Athletic Director and Chief Financial Officer since 2023.

Bowes was the lead fiscal officer for the Cardinals' athletic department and oversaw all finance and business activities. He also served as the sport administrator for football and as the liaison to the university, ULAA board and Board of Trustees, and provided leadership oversight to equipment operations, capital projects, facilities and the UofL Golf Club. 

Bowes joined Louisville after spending two years as the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Southern California. He managed the Trojans' annual facilities, operations and capital project budgets as well as implementing a long-term capital investment strategy to modernize facilities for USC Athletics. Bowes also worked as a lead on USC's Big Ten and Big Ten Network transition, including branding and capital investments. 

Before arriving at USC, Bowes was the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Internal Affairs/CFO at the University of Cincinnati. Highlights of his time at Cincinnati included being chief advisor on the department's $75 million annual operating budget, serving as sport administrator for men's basketball and men's soccer, overseeing a $95 million renovation of Fifth Third Arena, overseeing the development of a $4 million football locker and team room renovation and assisting in the negotiation and development of coaching contracts. He joined the Bearcats' staff in 2009.

A Worthington, Ohio, native, Bowes received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Ohio State in 2008 and a master's in business administration from Cincinnati in 2016. He's married to his wife, Lindsay.