Robert Gow

Robert Gow is a U.S. businessman and friend of the Bush family.

Educated at Yale University and tapped for Skull and Bones in 1954 together with his roommate Ray C. Walker, the cousin of George H. W. Bush.

Gow joined Zapata Corporation and in 1966 became president of Zapata Oil after George H. W. Bush sold his shares. In 1969 Zapata made a tender for United Fruit Company. His father Ralph Gow was on the board of directors. The same year Eli Black took over the company and Zapata was paid substantial stock.

In 1971 Robert Gow hired George W. Bush at his new Houston agricultural company, Stratford. Gow brought Peter C. Knudtzen with him from Zapata when founding Stratford.

In 1973 Gow’s company entered into what the "Wall Street Journal" on Aug 29, 1973 reported as a: "unique joint [sic] venture" with the Jamaican Government, “to grow floricultural crops in Jamaica.”Verify source|date=August 2008

Robert Gow then partnered with a private corporation located in McLean, Virginia developing “pollution free, low- cost energy sources,” which posted a loss of 80% of its net worth, and then reported sadly that it was left with “a staggering $80.7 million debt and equity of only $4.7 million."citequote

In the 1980s Robert Gow formed another company, SI Diamond, to "solicit federal research grants and solve technical problems for the government.” It partnered with MCC.

As of 2006, Robert Gow owns Yucatan Bamboo.

Gow is also involved in Blue Gold Foods (a/k/a Oro Azul), a company that raises tilapia in the Yucatan.