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Dylan Charles - Managing Partner

Dylan Charles has over 20 years of strategy and planning experience in a range of industries, including high technology, telecommunications, media, and consumer products. His expertise includes market analysis and strategy development, partner and channel strategy, positioning strategy, market infrastructure planning including web, social media, and customer/partner management systems, and operations strategy.

Dylan has advised technology companies including Adobe, Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, and VMware. He has developed market positioning and launch strategies for media industry clients from Creative Artist Agency and Broderbund to National Geographic and PBS. He has also worked with telecommunications equipment and services providers such as Verizon, GTE, Hughes DirecPC, SBC, US West (Qwest) and others.

Dylan also has experience with startups in the consumer products and enterprise software industries, including as a founder of Solmetric. He is Board Chair of Ecology Project International and on the advisory board of City Car Share.  Dylan has a BA from Tufts University and an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.