Charles is a consumer web and digital media professional with investing and operating experience across a range of seed stage, private venture-backed and publicly traded technology companies. Charles currently leads games, social networking and smartphone application partnerships for Google’s mobile advertising business.
Prior to Google, he was on the business development team at AdMob, where he helped scale the company’s North American publisher base and take it’s initial rich-media advertising, iPad and Android OS efforts to market.
Prior to AdMob, Charles was Director of Strategy and Business Development at Boomerang Networks where he led strategy, business development and marketing efforts through the company’s initial product launch.
Previously, Charles was with TriplePoint Capital where he was engaged in venture capital investing in early-to-expansion stage internet/digital media, software, mobile and clean technology ventures. His transaction experience includes debt finance, seed/angel, equity lead and equity co-investment of $200+ million of committed capital across 25 start-ups.
