Jay Bowman

Jay Bowman helps construction and engineering leaders make clearer decisions about where to grow, where to invest, and which risks they can’t yet see. He leads FMI’s Vertical AEC practice, advising contractors and industry leaders on strategy and growth across North America and abroad.

His counsel is grounded in nearly three decades of reading the industry from the inside. Jay joined FMI in 1998 and led the firm’s research and analytics work for years before moving into strategy and client advisory. That path still shapes how he counsels executives: separate the durable, structural demand a business can build on from the borrowed kind that eventually fades. “You can’t build to endure on borrowed demand” is a line his clients hear often, usually right before a capital or expansion decision gets sharper.

Jay speaks regularly at the industry’s largest conferences and co-authors FMI’s annual North America Construction Overview, one of the most widely read market outlooks in U.S. and Canadian construction. Autodesk named him one of its Top 50 Global Construction Influencers. Before FMI, he worked with Aon Risk Services in Atlanta.