Born and raised on a Kansas wheat farm, one of Chuck's greatest prides as a young boy was being named "Kansas Poultry Judging Champion"! Graduating from Kansas State University (B. S. in Theatre Education and M. A. in Communication) he was a Graduate Assistant Instructor on the Speech and Drama faculty. Additionally, he became Corporate Strategic Plan Certified by the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business. Most recently, he graduated from the prestigious Certified Instructor's Institute. Currently, he serves on the Mendenhall College faculty, the Virginia GRI Faculty, as a Senior Faculty member for the Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS®, as an Honorary Faculty member for a major real estate university and as an instructor at the James Madison University Lifelong Learning Institute.
Before his current business career, he excelled as a nationally recognized corporate marketing director, successfully managing operations in the Pacific Basin, West Coast and Mid-Atlantic states. As corporate officer in charge of product and market development for a leading international company, his accomplishments included being an innovative pioneer in the creation of visionary insurance programs to include domestic pet medical insurance, corporate medical stop-loss and long term care insurance for aging Americans.
Chuck has enjoyed active membership in the DC Board of Trade, World Trade Council, Greater DC International Business Council, Alexandria Prison Ministry President's Council, San Francisco Big Sisters Board of Directors and the Harrisonburg/Rockingham Chamber of Commerce. He was honored as Virginia Businessman of the Year while serving as Co-chair of the National Business Advisory Council and inducted into the International Global Register's WHO'S WHO of Business Executives. Additionally, he is a Circle of Champions honoree of a major international real estate company, a member of the Chamber of Commerce Community Leadership Program and serves on the Business Advisory Board for
FORBES Magazine.
A Vietnam era veteran, he is a Distinguished Military Graduate and Honoree to the Kansas State University Military ROTC Wall of Fame. As an active Benefactor Member of the Marine Corp Memorial Association, he is a frequent motivational speaker at military events.
With 45+ years experience as a corporate sales manager, corporate executive, business coach, REALTOR®, Auctioneer (VA 1867), creative marketing consultant, fund raiser, published writer, educator and sought after convention speaker, he has successfully achieved "A Boat Load" of professional honors and designations. As an active Board Member of the Virginia Auctioneers Association and the North America TOP 10, he is recipient of the distinguished HMS Levi Advertising Award for Creative Business Marketing and charter recipient of the Distinguished Service Award.
Chuck is President of two companies; The
THE
Chuck & BUDDY COLLEGE of Business Knowledge and
THE
Auction NETWORK
™. As founder of two fundraising consulting firms (
The WIN Group) and (
ECOs™
–
Environmental Charity Organizations), he pioneered the development of
Accelerated Marketing Strategies
, a “21st Century” tool that 501(c)3 nonprofits use to successfully raise sustainable funding.
Creator of the acclaimed THE
Business Owner’s Survival Guide & Retirement ToolKIT™
, he is an acknowledged and published authority on strategies for building profitable and sustainable businesses. Multiple institutions of higher learning ranging from Pepperdine University to Mississippi State University to Rowan University to Kansas State University have engaged him as a speaker in acknowledgement of his innovative and creative business visions and ideas.
