Charles Kenmore
Charles Kenmore
Charles Kenmore, the CEO and Managing Partner of Strategic Management Advisors, LLC, is a highly experienced and successful technology industry executive with over 25 years of experience. With a proven track record of managing technology companies during both prosperous times and through economic downturns, Mr. Kenmore has established and sold four start-up businesses and successfully grew EBIDTA. In addition, he has raised over $100 million in private equity investment and managed two SEC S-1's filings. With a unique combination of strategic thinking and results-driven implementation, Mr. Kenmore has pioneered and refined a highly capital efficient hybrid Silicon Valley-China business model, delivering best-in-class financial performance, engineering productivity, and supply chain management.
With an impressive career, Mr. Kenmore has held several executive positions, including President of ADC International Inc., Vice President and General Manager International Division, Information Systems Group at Motorola, founding head of Sprint International, and Vice-President and General Manager of the International Systems Integration division at Comsat. He is also a frequent speaker at technology, investment banking, and institutional investor conferences, and he is well-respected in the industry, having been elected by industry CEOs to executive committee of the Telecommunications Industry Association Board, Chair of TIA’s, ANSI certified Technology & Standards Committee, and Board Member of the Electronics Industry Alliance, & elected to the Board of Tech America. Mr. Kenmore served on the CEO advisory panel for San Francisco Region Federal Reserve Bank.
Today, Mr. Kenmore continues to provide global M&A, technology, commercial, and financial due diligence, business alliances, board and interim CEO service at Strategic Management Advisors, LLC. He also served as the CEO and President of ANDA Networks, a Silicon Valley-based provider of Mobile Data and Metro-Ethernet network products.