Charles Ansdell

Chief Strategy Officer / United Kingdom

Charles is a senior leader with a proven track record of transforming organizations’ communications to deliver on their strategic goals. He advises companies and their leaders on how to build reputations, engage stakeholders and provide a supportive environment to achieve their commercial objectives and purpose.

He has advised blue-chip clients including HSBC, KPMG, Mastercard, PwC, State Street and Vanguard on high-stakes reputation challenges, transactions and business-critical projects.

Charles spent eight years in-house at Santander in London and Madrid, leading transformational projects in the UK communications function and the global technology and operations division. These included turning around Santander UK (Abbey’s) reputation, creating a global communications model, optimizing Santander’s digital communications assets and driving global mobile and internet banking adoption.

Charles holds a BSc in economics, has passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams and studied Business and Administration Strategy at Esade business school.