Charlie O’Flaherty is a proven leader with a track record for identifying new markets and business opportunities then recruiting and leading top executive teams to execute category-dominating business plans. His 18 years of experience in Asia, UK and the US include building and running HSBC Securities USA (APAC); founding AsiAlliance, Asia’s first financial technology VC incubator, and selling it to Dublin-based Digital Channel Partners; purchasing Lonrho’s Index Air Cargo and repositioning it as the IFRC’s primary East African logistics partner; and restructuring ABN AMRO’s US equity derivatives business by bringing manufacturing and distribution in-house to yield Y1 sales of more than $2 billion. As a hands-on operator, he looks forward to leading Third Reef and its portfolio companies from a disruptive startup to the category-defining consulting solution helping clients manage new business growth, turnarounds, financial & capital markets development, investment banking, and private equity investment.
