About

.Combining a renowned career of hospitality, entertainment, media, wellness and the path this generation confronts abruptly today regarding our collective humanity’s own path, Charlie is a poet, stewards lands and uplifts brilliance in others. , His focus for the last two decades has been Biodiveristy, ethical building, hotels and food brands, raising family and continuing to become aware of what love is - after a life time of managing or promoting A List concert artists, producing multiple stadium gatherings across the world, and being involved from his long time residency in Los Angeles of film distribution and marketing.

Since being exec director of a land mine detection NGO which had Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel as a Patron in the early 2000s which utilized tech to reduce the cost of a land mine removal from $1,000 to $8, Charlie has chosen through his Influence Foundation to help activate humanitarian impact with circular sustainable “whole system” economies and supporting women’s empowerment that can converge itself into a balance of the feminine and the masculine for the sake of all species on earth.

Charlie co founded and operated Sanará Hotel Tulum and now stewards Panama lands El Refugio and initiating The Veil hospitality and branded residences.

Charlie is also visionary and steward of Biodiversity Arc, with pilots converging around the world related to multiple economies being uplifted by 540,000,000 million small farmholders.

• 40+ years humanitarian work across Africa, USA, Mexico and UK.

• Patron of FLAIR (First Ladies of Africa Impact & Resilience)

• Food4Africa Co-patron feeding + 100,000,000 meals

Member of The Villars Institute, Villars, Switzerland.

• Former Executive Director with Nelson Mandela & Graça Machel as Patrons and co founder of Liberia Women’s Empowerment College along with Dr. Kimmie Weeks under the patronage of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

• Business founder : Food Production, Farming, Hotels, Hospitality, Music & Media, Funds.

• Mexico residency and member of Mayan Wisdom Council: Direct collaboration with Sembrando Vida scaling 450,000 small farmer holders on 1 million hectares

• Global Vision: Bridging indigenous wisdom with technological revolution, reducing supply chains and food waste and activating a collaborative whole system solution ahead of rapidly compounding issues around affordable access to basic needs. Ideally shifting “grass to not being greener on the other side of the border”, thereby preventing migration moving to the untenable 400 million predicted by 2030.