Charles Gallagher has over 35 years of operating experience and has managed more than 20 middle market merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions, including 15 leveraged buyouts.

Gallagher began his career with Owens Corning Fiberglass in Toledo, Ohio. In his 20 years there, he held several senior management positions and is credited with developing sales and distribution strategies and national marketing campaigns that remain significant to Owens Corning today. In 1980, Gallagher became President and CEO of Denver based Susquehanna Corporation, where he successfully executed a dramatic turnaround of this publicly-held building products company.

From 1986 to 1997, Gallagher was the Chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of Applied Industrial Materials Corporation (AIMCOR), a global leader in industrial carbon products and related services. While leading AIMCOR, Gallagher also led multiple leveraged buyouts of new middle market platform companies and subsequent add-on acquisitions. In 1997, he formed the family partnership of Gallagher Enterprises to lead future successes. Gallagher’s string of successful leveraged buyouts continues today through Gallagher Industries.

Gallagher serves on numerous Boards including the Denver Art Museum, the Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Denver, the Metropolitan State College of Denver Foundation, the National Jewish Medical & Research Center, Colorado UpLIFT, Denver Area Council Boy Scouts of America, Xavier University and Regis University. He is also a member of the Colorado Thirty Group and The Tower Club. Gallagher holds a B.S. in Economics from Xavier University.