Charlie Thomas
Chief Executive Officer
Charlie has led Razorsight to strong growth including a #8 ranking on Deloitte's Virginia Fast 50 and a #114 ranking on Deloitte's National Fast 500 list. He's also established very strategic partnerships with IBM and Xerox. Charlie has secured over $30 million in growth capital for Razorsight from leading institutional investors Sierra Ventures and Georgian Partners. Prior to Razorsight, Charlie co-founded, grew and sold 4 companies, and negotiated over $1 Billion in capital financings for his companies. He has successfully closed over 15 M&A transactions. Prior to Razorsight, Charlie founded and grew Claris Capital, a boutique investment bank, from 2002 to 2005. Charlie co-founded one of the nation's first Internet Service Providers which was acquired by Verio. He also founded an IT Services firm that was acquired by Private Equity firm GTCR, and a data center hosting company that was acquired. Charlie founded Net2000 Communications, a broadband telecommunications carrier, and led the company as CEO for nine years from start-up to an IPO led by Goldman Sachs in March 2000 with a market cap over $1.5 billion. Net2000 grew to $150 million in revenue and over 1,000 employees before being acquired by Cavalier Telephone in 2002.
Charlie has also held sales and marketing positions with IBM and Verizon. Charlie has invested in numerous early stage companies and has served on several corporate boards including Reliacast (acquired by Comcast in 2009), True North Solutions (acquired by ASC in 2007), Base Technologies (acquired by CA in 2011), mindSHIFT (acquired by Best Buy in 2011) and he presently serves on the boards of Potomac Officers Club, CFN Services and is Vice Chairman of MindShare (Alumni). He is author of the book "Entrepreneur: A CEO's Lessons in American Capitalism" which was published in May 2005 (www.ceolessons.com). Charlie graduated from the University of Virginia where he played baseball.
