Charles served as a Managing Director in Healthcare Investment Banking at Wachovia Securities for five years and headed Wachovia’s biotechnology practice in New York. Prior to Wachovia, Charles was with Healthcare Investment Banking at Cowen and Company for six years, ultimately serving as a Director in life sciences. Prior to beginning his investment banking career in 1996, Charles practiced corporate and securities law with Dewey Ballantine. His transactional experience spans a broad range of public and private market financings and merger and acquisitions and advisory assignments for both public and private companies specializing in biotechnology and life sciences. Charles holds a B.A. and J.D. degrees from Georgetown University and an MBA degree in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. |