Charlie has spent more than 25 years in Perth’s innovation ecosystem. He's been a startup founder, angel investor and university lecturer.
Originally from the UK, he worked in Singapore before arriving in Perth in the late 90s. He graduated top of UWA Business School with an MBA and co-founded property listings site aussiehome.com in 1999, which was acquired by REIWA in 2010.
He then ran reiwa.com, went on to be CEO of Business News, Startup News, host of Startup West podcast, worked for an Australian Government startup fund and ran the WA government's New Industries Fund programs.