Margaret Bowen began her career in state government in 1974 working for the Georgia Department of Human Resources. In 1980 Ms. Bowen became the District Administrator for the Griffin District Office of GA DFCS, encompassing 14 counties. She worked closely with local DFCS Boards, County governments and the state of GA to develop, design and renovate 13 county DFCS offices. Ms. Bowen learned first hand the positive effect well organized and planned space can have on the delivery of services to the citizens of Georgia. In 1984 Ms. Bowen transferred to DeKalb County Board of Health to assume the position of Executive Director of Administration. There she dealt with the development and renovation of 300,000 square feet of space. After 20 years of State service, Ms. Bowen entered the private sector to work in real estate development.

In July of 1994, Ms. Bowen become a partner in OA Development, her first development services company. Margaret was instrumental in the development of over 25 facilities for a variety of State and Local Government entities.

In 2001, Ms. Bowen, along with Mr. Sam Guest started a new company, Forum Development Services. In 2004 Forum Development Services merged with Municipal Development Services to become Forum Municipal Development Services and is located in Lilburn, Georgia. In the past 14 years, she has been instrumental in the development, planning and financing of over 40 facilities totaling more than 1,100,000 square feet of office space with a value of over $150,000,000.

She is currently the President and CEO of Forum Management Service, Inc; Managing Member of Forum Municipal Development Services, LLC; President of Margaret E. Bowen, Inc., and Managing Member of Krisbo Properties, LLC.

Forum Management is a Property Management Company that serves a niche in the Government market. As the Managing Member, Ms. Bowen, in addition to the Real Estate Development and Property Managemenct companies, oversees the day-to-day management of Forum MDS to include the accounting and financial services.

Margaret E. Bowen, Inc. is a company that provides consulting services to other companies in the development of Real Estate and Government facilities. Krisbo Properties, LLC, is the Real Estate Company in which Ms. Bowen and her husband, Jim, own properties.

In the course of managing these companies, Ms. Bowen deals with a wide variety of management, financial and contractual challenges. She works closely with the client in the planning and development of the new building to make sure they get a facility that is affordable and meets their needs.