Bellows has been a Professional Lecturer at American University for almost ten years, teaching classes in innovation, entrepreneurship and introduction to business. He also has Co-Directed the American University Incubator for start-up ventures, acting as a business mentor. Prior to joining the Kogod faculty, Professor Bellows was an entrepreneur working in Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia after starting his career in the mainframe and customer marketing divisions at IBM. He was co-founder and managing partner of Copithorne & Bellows, a consulting firm that developed and executed strategy, competitive research, positioning and market outreach programs for Fortune 500 and emerging technology companies. The company was twice named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America and was acquired in 1999 by the Omnicom Group. Professor Bellows later served as President, COO and Chief Marketing Officer for three early stage technology companies in Northern Virginia and as a co-founder of a mobile application developer that designed and created information solutions for the World Bank and several European health care agencies.