Chuck is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He earned a BA in Architecture and Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith a leading travel gear company that grew to $100 million in revenue and over 2 million customers. As a private equity investor, he has participated in the acquisition of over $2 billion in consumer businesses. In 2006 he created Living Goods, which supports 10,000 digitally empowered community health entrepreneurs who provide health care on-call delivered to the doorsteps of over 6 million people in Africa and Asia. Multiple randomized studies show this platform is reducing child mortality by over 25%, for less than $3 per person reached. Living Goods Smart Health app automates diagnoses, enables managers to optimize the performance of thousands of health workers in in remote villages, and provides real-time, auditable data to health ministries and funders.
