Daniel Scott Dowell

Born: September 22, 1950; Age 72

Marital Status: Married; Joyce Ann Dowell

Children: Jeff, 41; Tom, 38; Alyson, 36

Career: 1974-2013, Portfolio Manager for the State of California. Served under 8 treasurers, including Ivy Baker Priest, Jesse Unruh, Liz Whitney (acting), Thomas Hayes, Kathleen Brown, Matt Fong, Philip Angelides, and Bill Lockyer.

The author, Daniel Scott Dowell, is a thirty-eight year veteran of fixed income portfolio management. He has negotiated more than 400,000 trades in an investment program that now totals $65 billion. Mr. Dowell has been a panelist, moderator, speaker, and featured speaker at a number of seminars, conferences, and workshops. He is a five-time Persie award winner in the mystery/thriller/adventure genre from the William Saroyan Annual Writers' Conference, and has been honored by Over My Dead Body Mystery Magazine, ByLine Magazine, Lynx Eye Magazine, the California Writers Club, the SLO Nightwriters, the Yosemite Writers Conference, and Mysterical-e online mystery magazine.

Mr. Dowell combines his knowledge of the fast-paced fixed income securities markets with his ability to develop characters whose values and integrity are tested daily in those markets. His first novel, The Chatroom, is the story of how even a professional investor can be blinded by his reckless pursuit of the proverbial brass ring. His second novel, Sometimes the Bear Gets You, further explores the power that money at times holds over integrity. Modeled after the sequential murders in Ten Little Indians, and introducing the jealous suspicions and outdoor adventure in The Edge, Mr. Dowell's second novel shows that even the most understandable motive for thievery cannot excuse mayhem and murder.

Mr. Dowell's third novel, Unclaimed Property, enforces the adage that money is the mother's milk of politics, and that some will go to any lengths to get it. Mr. Dowell is also compiling an anthology, Bedtime Mysteries--A Collection of Selected Short Stories, including many of his award-winning works.

Mr. Dowell is a passionate advocate for supporting research regarding childhood cancer. Specifically, Mr. Dowell has embraced the mission of the Kylie Rowand Foundation:

The Kylie Rowand Foundation is dedicated to raising money and awareness for new, promising, less toxic treatments for childhood cancer. As a team we strive to make the lives of the patients and family members a little less stressful by helping support their needs and struggles. The Kylie Rowand Foundation was inspired by a two year old little girl named Kylie. She fought stage 4 neuroblastoma courageously for 13 months, when in February of 2015, Kylie flew home to be with the Lord. During Kylie’s battle, she infectiously gain support, prayer, and love by hundreds of thousands of people across the globe. It is now up to us to come together once again to help finish Kylie’s fight.