Charles Welch
Charles Welch is a Managing Director at Pagemill Partners. Charles has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, business and corporate development, finance, capital raising, investor relations, human resources, and law. At Pagemill Partners, he has successfully completed numerous M&A and strategic capital raise transactions.
Prior to joining Pagemill, Charles co-headed the Semiconductor, Communications Equipment and Diversified Transactions practice groups at SVB Alliant, the then investment banking arm of Silicon Valley Bank.
Before SVB Alliant, Charles was the Vice President, Finance, Corporate Development & Strategy at NetScaler, an Internet infrastructure company that was eventually acquired by Citrix. Prior to that he held the position of Vice President, Corporate Development at Solectron, an EMS company, and was the Vice President, Business Development and General Counsel at SMART Modular Technologies, a memory module manufacturer that was acquired by Solectron. Charles was also a corporate securities attorney at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati.
Charles has a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Virginia Tech, a Masters in Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California, and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law).
Email: cwelch@pmib.com
Office: +1.650.354.4032