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. |