Gordon Bowker

Gordon Bowker is an American entrepreneur. He began as a writer and went on to co-found Starbucks with Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl. He was later a co-owner of Peet's Coffee & Tea and Redhook Ale Brewery. He attended the University of San Francisco.

During the 1960s, he and Baldwin would order coffee beans via mail-order from Peet's Coffee in Berkley, California; Bowker would later also regularly drive to Vancouver, Canada to purchase roasted beans from Murchie's Tea & Coffee.