Charlie joined Milgrom Daskam & Ellis in 2020 and focuses on serving entrepreneurs, nonprofits and affordable housing developers and lenders. His expertise includes startup, venture and public company financing, business transition and succession planning, real estate development and acquisition and, more recently, affordable housing and new market tax credit development and financing.

Prior to joining MD&E, Charlie was general counsel of the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority and previously was the founding partner of Venture Law Advisors, LLC, a law firm focused on emerging Colorado and California enterprises.  He has served as a co-founder, CEO, CFO and General Counsel of private and public companies engaged in renewable energy development, medical device manufacturing, real estate acquisition and development, and retail and wholesale product distribution.   Charlie has practiced corporate securities law in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and New York City.

Charlie is passionate about innovation, community engagement, and education and has served as an adjunct professor in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, teaching classes on entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and career strategy, and with the Université Paris-Saclay, teaching classes in mergers and acquisitions. Charlie is also a board member of Urban Peak, a Denver-based nonprofit providing essential services to youth who are homeless or at risk of being homeless; a Commissioner with the Denver Housing Authority, an affordable housing developer and operator; a board member of the Platt Park Peoples Association, a registered neighborhood association; and the Old South Pearl Street Merchants Association, which operates the Old Pearl Street Farmer’s Market every summer.

Charlie holds a BA in experimental psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, MBA and JD degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles, and is a University of Notre Dame Certified Innovation Mentor. Outside the office, Charlie and his wife Suzanne spend as much time as possible playing with their grandchildren, visiting beautiful beaches, traveling the world, and spending time in the Colorado mountains.