After completing his Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) degree at the Universtiy of Cape Town (South Africa) in 1982, Charles returned to his family’s tobacco merchanting company, Tabex (Pvt) Ltd in Zimbabwe. He spent 15 years in the business, the last 5 of which were spent as Managing Director, until in 1997, the business was sold to Dimon Zimbabwe where he spent a brief time as the sales director. Since then, Charles has held numerous executive and non-executive positions in southern African businesses, the likes of which included Falcon Gold Zimbabwe Ltd (listed on the Zimbabwean Stock Exchange) and Blackstar Group SE (dual listed on London AIM and Johannesburg Alt-X). Charles is currently involved in various property development and commodity trading ventures. Charles resides in Zimbabwe.