Charles is a serial entrepreneur who has launched five companies and one foundation. He is known for inventing the royalty-free image delivery model at Digital Stock Inc., one of the world’s first internet-enabled transaction models, and later sold directly to Bill Gates. 

Charles also developed the confidence-based learning model at Amplifire, which accelerates learning, enhances long-term retention, and moves people towards their highest potential. Amplifire is now the leading learning platform based on cognitive psychology with over 4 .5 billion learner interactions, recently sold to Polaris Partners.

He currently serves as Chairman at Nature and Culture International where he is applying time and treasure toward the goal of saving the remaining biodiversity hotspots in the Amazon and Andes before they disappear. To date, Nature and Culture has conserved twenty-five million acres in five ecosystems (Yellowstone is 2 million) and sequestered over 3 billion tons of carbon. Charles is also a co-founder and board member of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.

To give but one example of the deep trouble Mother Nature finds herself in, consider that 75% of Earth’s wildlife has vanished in the last fifty years. And to sharpen the point about our domination over nature, currently 34% of the biomass of mammals on Earth is us humans. Another 62% is our livestock. Wild animals are a mere 4% of all the mammal biomass in the world. 2% of those mammals are on land and 2% are in the ocean as whales, dolphins, and seals.