Charles Beckwith is a freelance executive and consultant, using his unique horizontal experience in fashion, media, and technology to help fashion and fashion-tech brands solve problems and build future-ready solutions. He is concurrently chief exploration officer at Open Source Fashion, and CEO of the Fashion Media Center think tank and marketing lab, where he is producer and co-host of the fashion industry's favorite show, American Fashion Podcast. A veteran media producer and artist with experience across radio, television, filmmaking, publishing, photography, theater, technology development, fiction writing, and live events management, he paints in his spare time.