Chuck Slaughter

Chuck founded Living Goods in 2007, led the organization as CEO for 10 years, and now serves as Chairman. Chuck earned a BA in Architecture and a Master’s in Public and Private Management from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith, a leading travel gear company, and grew it to over $100 million in catalog and online sales. As a private equity investor, he has participated in the acquisition of over $2 billion in consumer businesses. As its pro-bono president, Chuck led the turnaround of a system of franchised clinics serving the poor in Kenya. Chuck is a Senior Advisor to the TPG Rise Fund. He serves on the boards of Yale’s School of Management, Tidepool, Dharma Platform (a TPG Company), Aspen Management Partners for Health, and the Horace Goldsmith Foundation. He received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Draper Richards Fellowship, and is a World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year.