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Charles is an accomplished business executive with a 25-year career in global general management, operations, financial management, and strategic relationships in the technology, banking and consumer packaged goods sectors. Charles has had senior management positions in the United States, South America, Mexico, and Western Europe with Dank Business Systems, Tropicana Products, Mellon Bank, PepsiCo and The Procter & Gamble Company. Charles has extensive experience with both domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, and has been involved in over 100 acquisitions and divestitures, including a $1.8 billion acquisition for Danka Business Systems. Charles was also a lead participant in negotiating the GATT and NAFTA Agreements as Undersecretary in the Bush administration (1990-1993).
In his most recent position, Charles was a founder and Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing of Mimeo, Inc. and was instrumental in building a strategic business and investment relationship with Hewlett-Packard and UPS. In addition, Charles was one of the lead Mimeo executives that raised a total of $41 million in financing. Charles holds both an A.B. degree and a M.B.A. from St. Louis University. | 