A 30+ year financing industry veteran, Charles’s career commenced in 1987 and includes leadership positions with highly regarded financial institutions including ABN AMRO, KeyBank and Fifth Third Bank.
In January of 2017, Charles joined Alliant Credit Union in charge of commercial lending. Subsequently, he was selected to additionally oversee Alliant’s loan trading operation and its FinTech partnership development activities as Alliant’s Senior Vice President, Chief Capital Markets Officer and Head of Commercial Lending. Under his guidance, Alliant strategically purchases and sells residential, consumer and commercial loans and diversifies its balance sheet through the identification and cultivation of fintech relationships across divergent asset classes.
Charles served on the board of a large CDC, where he was named Director of the Year in 2011. In 2020, he was inducted into the Midwest Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame, and in in 2021 was selected as a Manager of the Year finalist by Gallup. In addition, Charles headed a team that won CUNA’s Excellence in Lending Award in 2018, was selected as a Lender Influencer by GlobeSt.com in 2020 and a Top Mortgage Lender in 2021 by Connect Media.
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