Charles Lindop Profile

Charles Lindop

Charles is the founding director of Interface solutions and on a day to day basis, a principal of corporate advisory firm Carlisle Partners and KTM Capital.

From 2001 to 2006 Charles established a range of technology business incubator programs for ATP Innovations, Australia’s largest technology business incubator and owned by 4 of Australia’s leading research universities (ANU, UNSW, Sydney and UTS). As Director Business Programs, Charles defined ATP Innovations’ delivery programs, and assisted many emerging technology companies with business formation, market validation, business strategy and business finance services. The services included a wholly owned investment subsidiary bizCapital and the very successful entrepreneurs network, bizNetClub.

During the 1990′s Charles established 3 successful ICT businesses for Hitachi Data Systems and United Customer Management Solutions; offering smart card solutions to the financial services industry, CRM & data warehousing solutions to top 100 corporations, and business process outsourcing solutions to utilities and the financial services industry.

Charles has also held a number of senior sales, marketing and services positions at Hewlett-Packard, SAP Software and Unisys. In the early ’90′s, for 2 years in a row, Charles was the highest percentage over quota sales executive for HP Australia & New Zealand and the second highest in the Asia Pacific region.

Charles is a non-executive director of NSW Enterprise Workshop, NSW chair and Financial Services Industry chair for the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), and co-chair of Pearcey Foundation NSW. He is also a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), and the Australian Business Foundation. He is a judge for the Australian Technology Showcase and the iAwards.

Charles is also a gold medallion lifesaver and patrol captain for Avalon Beach Surf Lifesaving Club.