Carlton J. Charles, Senior Vice President, Treasury and Risk Management, serves as global treasurer, oversees risk management and insurance, leads the company’s Risk Working Group and Supplier Diversity Program and is Chairman, Level Up Ventures. Carlton was also elected to the Hearst Board of Directors in 2020. Carlton is also a board member, M&T Bank Board of Directors, where her serves on the Nominating & Governance Committee. Carlton is a member of the Executive Leadership Council and National Association of Corporate Directors, where he is a Governance Fellow and Certified Board Director. In the community, Carlton serves on the board of BUILD.org, a non-profit focused on teaching entrepreneurship to youth in underserved communities and has provided significant support to the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club, which made him a Youth of the Year honoree in 2021.Carlton has demonstrated financial acumen throughout his 30 plus year career in treasury and risk management. Carlton developed the operational risk management program for Hearst and is chair of the company’s Risk Working Group. Among the focus areas for the group are cybersecurity and data privacy. Carlton also created Hearst’s Risk Summit, which is an annual convening of CFOs and CTOs from across Hearst’s businesses to discuss the key risks facing the company. Carlton used his experience on the investment committee for HearstLab, a business accelerator focused on early-stage female founders, to establish a venture capital company in 2021 called Hearst Level Up Ventures, which is focused on early-stage Black and Latinx founders. He also established Hearst’s first-ever, supplier diversity program and is chair of the Supplier Diversity Council.Carlton was an early architect of the Enterprise Risk Management program for Moody’s Corporation, an SEC regulated company and one of the largest rating agencies in the world. Carlton regularly reported to the Moody’s board of directors on treasury and enterprise risk topics.Prior to Moody’s, Carlton held increasingly responsible positions in treasury and risk management for International Paper, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Viacom (Paramount Global) and Philip Morris (Altria).Carlton holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a Master’s in Public Policy and Bachelor of Science in Economics from SUNY at Stony Brook.