Four nearly three decades Charles has worked within the context of sports, fashion, and active lifestyle products for leading global brands. With a design degree from Carnegie Mellon, his professional starting point as a product designer specializing in footwear has transformed to executive-level leadership shaping vision, teams, product experiences and global strategies.

With his unique and broad-ranging background, Driven By Charles consults to a range of industries helping startups navigate their vision, corporate product engines shape new active life experiences and sports tech venture capitalists in need of expert insight to guide their investment decision.