A skilled professional cycling coach and team manager with a strong track record of performance in MTB on a World Cup and Continental Championship stage. Over 20 years coaching experience gained in a range of disciplines and environments from working with individual clients to leading world class programmes for the UCI World Cycling Centre.

At the UCI, Charlie ran a residential athlete development programme, based in Aigle, Switzerland, for over half a decade. Here, he coached young talented MTB athletes from around the world towards successful World Cup performances in their European base. This programme provided the bridge between NGB support into professional teams and achieved several World Cup podium performances.

Considerable experience as a coach educator, having been technical lead for British Cycling's Coach Education Programme and coach educator for the UCI to many National Federations world wide. A proven ability to generate engaging, original content for high quality world-leading learning programmes.

Educated to Postgraduate level in Sport and Exercise Science and with experience gained as an undergraduate lecturer, so providing a well-developed pedagogical understanding, in academic, coach and rider development settings.

His own racing experience took Charlie to an Elite license in MTB, as well as having raced road, time trial and track to a national standard in the UK.