Charlie is an investor and entrepreneur focused on emerging markets and responsible for the global seed-stage venture capital fund, Seedstars International Ventures.

In early 2014, Charlie joined the founding team of Seedstars to help grow the company into the leading emerging market venture enabler that it is today. Since 2019 Charlie has led the investment activities of the group and now concluded over 90 investments in 35 countries.

Prior to Seedstars, Charlie spent 4 years with BlueOrchard Finance, a leading impact investment manager, where he invested in financial institutions across Asia, MENA and Africa.

Charlie studied at the University of Leeds, UK with a year at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and holds a Master of Engineering First Class Honours degree. Transitioning into finance following an MBA at the Collège des Ingénieurs, Paris, he later became a CFA charter holder.