A founder, public company CEO and commercial operator with 20 years across technology, SaaS, investment and high growth businesses. Charlie's career spans Manage.com, North Block Capital and EdgeMode, where he led the move into the US public markets and the repositioning into AI data centre and energy infrastructure.
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Book a discovery call Watch on YouTubeCharlie Faulkner is a founder, public company CEO and commercial operator with 20 years of experience across technology, SaaS, investment and high growth businesses. His career has focused on scaling businesses, international expansion, capital raising, strategic partnerships and complex transactions.
Earlier in his career, Charlie led international business development at Manage.com during the period the company scaled from approximately $0 to $100m in revenue. He then co-founded EdgeMode, led the business into the US public markets through a 2022 reverse merger and, as CEO, President and Director, has been responsible for corporate strategy, financing, investor relations, partnerships, governance and cross border development.
Charlie is at his best in businesses facing a meaningful growth or change agenda: entering new markets, strengthening commercial performance, accessing capital, developing strategic partnerships or navigating a major transaction. His style is hands on and commercially pragmatic. He works closely with founders, boards and leadership teams, challenges assumptions when necessary and takes direct responsibility for turning strategy into execution. Based in Spain, he works across the UK, US and Europe.
A scale up, a public listing and a capital programme. Charlie has done the work that growth plans depend on, from first customer relationships to the investor table.
From a scale up in performance technology to founding and leading a US public company, Charlie has worked with founders, investors, funds and strategic corporates across Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Charlie's offering covers commercial growth, capital, strategic transactions and AI infrastructure. Built for founder led, investor backed and international businesses facing a defined growth, capital, market entry or strategic change agenda.
Commercial leadership for businesses entering new markets or lifting performance, building senior customer and partner relationships, including through Manage.com's scale up from $0 to about $100m in revenue.
Raising and structuring growth capital, from equity and note financings to equity purchase facilities, and guiding businesses through public market access, investor relations and board governance.
Structuring and negotiating joint ventures, partnerships, acquisitions and asset sales with investors, corporates and infrastructure counterparties across Europe and the Americas.
Commercial and capital leadership for data centre, powered land and energy platforms, from land and power to financing, partners and hyperscaler engagement.
If your organisation is entering a new market, raising capital or working through a major transaction, Charlie works with founders, boards and leadership teams to set clear priorities and turn strategy into execution.
Charlie has founded, listed and led a public company, so he understands the pressure on founders and boards from the inside, not from a slide deck.
Most leaders are either commercial or capital minded. Charlie builds the revenue, the partners and the investor relationships that a growth plan depends on.
Having lived and worked across the UK, US and Spain, Charlie operates easily across cultures, time zones and regulatory environments, with conversational Spanish.
An interim and fractional CEO and CCO able to step into CEO or Managing Director, CCO or Sales Director, Chief Strategy Officer, Transformation Director and Country or Regional Manager roles. Not restricted to one sector where the challenge is commercial, strategic or transactional.
Two decades of commercial and executive leadership, from international business development at Manage.com to co-founding and leading EdgeMode as a US public company.
Charlie Faulkner is a founder, public company CEO and commercial operator with 20 years across technology, SaaS, investment and high growth businesses.
His experience spans growth and international expansion, capital and public markets, strategic partnerships and AI infrastructure, making him a strong fit for founder led and investor backed businesses with ambitious plans.
Download CV → LinkedIn profileIf you are entering a new market, raising capital, preparing for public markets, building strategic partnerships or working through a major transaction, tell us in 25 minutes what you need. Charlie or one of our 50+ senior consultants will tell you honestly whether we can help.