 Bowyer, an accountant at the time, began what his biography calls his "first professional position" in 1990 at Arthur Andersen, then one of the six largest accounting firms in the United States.He left the firm in 1993 to work briefly as the vice president of the Beechwood Company, the holding company for Federated Investors, a mutual fund business.Bowyer started in broadcast media in 1993 as the host of WPIT-FM’s "Cross-Town Perspectives" program.