Since his early stints in the oil & gas and mining sectors in the North Sea and Western Australia respectively, Charlie has worked in international financial markets.

He first worked as a research analyst covering precious metals, and then latterly as an emerging market equity salesman with a natural resources specialism, covering the leading UK and European investors on both global emerging markets and the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. These included leading financial institutions from Japan, the US, Canada and South Africa.