Charles Conn
Entrepreneur, investor and author
Charles Conn is an entrepreneur, investor and former McKinsey partner who co-wrote Bulletproof Problem Solving. He has also led the Rhodes Trust and Oxford Sciences Innovation.
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About Charles Conn
Charles Conn began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he became a Partner and led work in the strategy and energy practices. He later became a technology entrepreneur and was the founding CEO of Ticketmaster-Citysearch, guiding it through its initial public offering (IPO) and its acquisitions of Match.com, Evite and other companies. He went on to lead Oxford Sciences Innovation, a £600m venture firm created together with the University of Oxford to help develop its advanced science ideas. He also spent five years as chief executive of the Rhodes Trust, which runs the Rhodes Scholarships, and co-founded the life sciences venture firm Monograph Capital. Earlier, as senior advisor to the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, he led conservation projects such as the wild salmon ecosystems initiative. Conn co-wrote Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2019. The book has been taught at Harvard and Oxford, among other places. He studied at Harvard Business School, Boston University and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and has served on boards including Patagonia.