Charles was a seasoned entrepreneur, enterprise design specialist and business executive with over thirty-five years of international business and financial management experience. In the course of his career, he directed over a dozen startup projects and company expansions in the USA, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Over the years, he managed his family's business, traded agricultural commodities, developed international distribution channels for consumer and industrial products, and developed and sold several billion dollars of products throughout the world. In 1997, Mr. Gohmann was recruited to develop a program to commercialize wood from Costa Rica's reforestation projects. After completing a three year commitment to that project, he co-founded and served as CEO of
First Costa Rican Title & Trust. He and his team built the company to a position of leadership providing legal, title and trust services to foreign investors in the Costa Rican real estate market, overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions. Since 2005 Mr. Gohmann focused on financing and business development activities, working with innovative companies in the hospitality, life sciences and technology sectors.