Purpose-driven angel investor, activist, entrepreneur, and ideator, Meg Charles takes her awareness of the technology talent shortage, knowledge of the human performance skills that companies desire, and sees powerful opportunities to transform lives and address the ever-widening wealth gap by providing access and opportunity to technology education, based on potential, not privilege.
When co-founder of tech talent development firm CodeBoxx Meg sees nearly 200,000 brand-new software development positions coming online each year in North America, she sees so much more than new, high-paying jobs—she sees a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to wipe out generational poverty in a matter of months, while addressing businesses’ need for workers with technology skills.
A lively and inspirational speaker, Meg honed her ability to connect with a wide range of audiences during the more than 20 years of working and living in countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Sweden, and the Philippines, before deciding to leverage her skills, knowledge, experience, and insights to become an angel investor and advisor to tech start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Her professional journey has taken her worldwide as Equity Partner of a law firm, General Counsel, angel investor, start-up board director/advisor, and now, tech education entrepreneur. Meg is driven to make Codeboxx the leader in accelerated technology talent development that elevates the human in technology, with its 14-week immersive full stack training program that teaches the hard coding skills and the human performance skills businesses want, which are also necessary for success in life. Meg is gratified by the results: providing a career pathway for people with a vision for a new life, providing employers well-rounded candidates with strong human performance skills, and of course broadening the wide variety of human experience necessary to create tech solutions that address our needs as the users of the products and services that technology enables.
