About

Charles Hudson is a passionate and innovative global product leader with extensive experience building successful international products for both enterprise and consumer spaces. He has a history of building and leading high output technical organizations and has successfully grown new revenue streams in excess of $100M, as well as achieved successful M&A and IPO milestones. Charles specializes in building and managing technical product organizations, driving innovation, integrating technologies, mobile, and web in disruptive ways to create innovation and customer success in commerce. He is also passionate about driving rapid product development from concept to reality and mentoring and growing ICs into talented technical and business leaders. Charles strongly believes that a single product success is not strategic, but instead real long term value comes from creating a positive ecosystem of iterative product releases solving real world challenges, continuous innovation, and integration among products and platforms. Currently, Charles is a Senior Manager of Mobile Software Engineering at iRobot, leading mobile Smart Home, e-Commerce, and Application Evolution global engineering efforts and teams. He has also served as a Visiting Faculty at the University of Georgia - Terry College of Business, instructing courses on digital transformation strategy, product innovation, eCommerce, internet programming, web, mobile, and IoT. Charles has previously held the position of Senior Manager Software Products at Lookout, where he provided global leadership for teams and mobile software platforms for mobile clients and SDK, driving scrum/agile practices and feature innovation across mobile client solutions. He has also pursued a Master of Business Administration - MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, specializing in managing technologically innovative enterprises/entrepreneurship. Charles's education history also includes individual courses in Java programming and VB from Northeastern University and certificates in C/UNIX programming and UNIX system administration from Daniel Webster College. Charles's tech stack includes mobile, integration, web, and QA, and he has relevant experience of 19.29 years. Overall, Charles is a highly experienced and innovative product leader with a passion for driving technological innovation and creating value through iterative product releases and continuous innovation.