

The Phill Man
Because of all the things Charlie has overcome during his life, he is now a motivational speaker and has made an impact on the lives of many people, especially entrepreneurs, corporate employers, and students.



The Phill Man
After hitting rock bottom, Charlie found a way to overcome depression through sports. Which led him to create a system for reinvention: Life Test, Life Vision, and Life Design. Method he has used to help friends and family that ask for help.

The Phill Man
Charlie actively participates in philanthropic projects:



The Biz Man
Charlie has an innate talent for Business, he is visionary and highly intuitive. He holds a M.B.A. mith minor in Marketing from INCAE Business School and a B.A. of Business Administration and Finance from Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He has 14 years of Corporate Executive experience holding management positions in multinational companies, mainly in Corporate Finance, developing new business models and go to market strategies, and its execution leading high performance teams.

The Biz Man
In 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, he launched Vertikal Sports Performance, one of the first high-tech training facilities for athletes in Central America. He is also the founder of Zero Sixty, an e-commerce platform for sports innovative products that has the distribution of world known brands such as Hyperice, Vald, and Coros.

Charlie´s Ventures

Sports investment group, specialized in funding, advising, and developing motor, sports, and fitness businesses in LATAM, globally.

E-commerce platform for innovative sports products, with distribution of world known brands such as: Hyperice, Vald, Normatec, Coros.

Blockchain platform with the purpose of supporting high school athletes to fund their sports career and give them access to higher education.

Performance athletic studio located in Guatemala, focused in personalized training programs based on results of medical, metabolic, mental, power and strength evaluations carried out by the team of high-performance specialists.
Meta Man
In December 2021, Charlie made the decision to move to Austin, Texas to pursue his dreams to give athletes the opportunity to fund their sports career and give them access to higher education. Vertikal X, got accepted in an acceleration program with International Accelerator.

Meta Man
Vertikal Sports already has a strong international presence established, most notably by their performance studio in Guatemala which collaborates with brands such as Vald Performance, BridgeAthletic, Keiser, and others to collect data, provide assessments, and create a comprehensive Training Performance Index (TPI) linked to an athlete’s profile. Vertikal X, their newest project launched exclusively in the United States, aims to enable athletes to tokenize and monetize their training for the first time using blockchain.

Meta Man
“I wasn’t able to accept a sports scholarship because of my mother’s financial constraints after losing my dad when I was 14,” Charlie explains. “This is why Vertikal X was born. My goal is to assist young athletes from all around the world in promoting and self-funding their careers, as well as in helping their parents pay for high tuition fees”


Ultra Man
In a way to overcome depression, Charlie decided to become an Ultra Trail Athlete in 2015. Little did he know that after 3 years, he would end up as #138 in the World Trail Championship 2018 and Top 5 Latin American at the Ultra Trail World Tour 2018. He has been able to accomplish this races thanks to his sponsors that have believe in him during all this years.


18,640+
Miles run
20
Locations
19
Ultras
1.5M
Meters elevation gain D+
Results
Interviews
ULTRARUNNERS Guatemalteco / Charlie Sarmiento
Programa 365 Entrevista con el ULTRAMARATONISTA Carlos Sarmiento
Maratonista dona su plasma para apoyar recuperación del COVID-19
Sarmiento sueña en grande
Charlie Sarmiento se prepara para el Trail World Championship 2018
Programa 325 Entrevista con el Atleta Charlie Sarmiento
Entrevista Charlie Sarmiento - ULTRA RUNNER
Programa 520 BREMEN entrevista con el ULTRAMARATONISTA Charlie Sarmiento
Programa 437 FIGUEPARTES nuevo reto del Atleta Charlie Sarmiento
Programa 350 Entrevista con el Atleta Charlie Sarmiento
Programa 378 Entrevista con Charlie Sarmiento TEAM EMPOWERLIFE
03 Programa 388 Entrevista con Charlie Sarmiento
Entrevista Atleta Charlie Sarmiento | Claro Sports
La entrevista | Charlie Sarmiento
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