Charles is a business and product leader with 20 years of experience building, advising and investing in category-defining platform companies. Most recently Charles served as Chief Operating Officer at Temporal Technologies, the leader in durable execution systems where he built and led all the company’s go-to-market and product functions while creating the category and launching the commercial product. In less than 3 years Temporal grew its users, customers, revenues and value by 20-100 times. Prior to Temporal Technologies, Charles spent nearly 10 years building Cloudera first as the product leader and subsequently as general manager for Cloudera’s 3 high growth business units. As the longest serving member of the leadership team, Charles helped Cloudera grow from a pre-product startup with less than $10 million in funding to a multi-product public company with nearly $800 million in ARR. Charles has advised or invested in other notable platform companies and investors including Airbyte, Baseten, Huggingface, Streamsets and Y Combinator. Charles has an undergraduate degree from Carleton College and a master’s from MIT and lives in San Francisco.