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
Brazon Bend TX
86 kms 1,000 mts D+
7hrs, 46min - Pos. 2
The Coastal Challenge, CR
240 kms 10,000 mts D+
35hrs, 19min - Pos. 5
Bandera – San Antonio, TX
100 kms. 5,000 mts D+
12 hrs. 33 min - Pos 41
UTX
50kms - DNF
UTMB, Italy, Switzerland. France
165 kms. 10, 000 mts D+
DNF
La Ruta de los Dioses, GUA
50 kms 2,000 mts D+
4hrs. 45min - Pos 3 de 150
UTFM, Japan
140 kms. 6,500 mts D+
27 hrs, 15min - Pos 41
UTG, Guatemala
100 kms. 6500 mts D+
19hrs, 27 min - 8 male (9 all) / top 10
Wastern States Endurance Race, USA
164 kms, 6,000 mts D+
26 hrs, 58 min - 175 de 399 (all)
Trail World Championship, Spain
86 kms. 6,000 mts . D+
13 hrs, 22 min - 138 male (218 all)
UTG, Guatemala
77 kms. 5800 mts D+
14hrs, 35 min - Top 5% - 13 of 225 (all)
Lavaredo Ultratrail, Italia
120 kms. 6,500 mts. D+
17 hrs, 58min - Top 7% - 105 of 1515 (all)
Transgrancanaria, España
125 kms, 7,000 mts. D+
22 hrs, 35min - Top 28% - 211 of 736 (all)
CCC-UTMB, Francia
102 kms. 6,500 mts D+
17 hrs, 58 min - Top 8% - 161 (total 2123)
ECS, California
84 kms. 3,700 mts D+
8hrs, 57 min - Top 20% - 132 (total 655)
ECS, New York
84 kms, 4,260 mts D+
9 hrs, 17 min - Top 11% - 44 (total 389)
Fuego y Agua, Nicaragua
102 kms. 6,500 mts D+
24 hrs, 9 min - Top 18% - 6 (total 32)
UTG, Guatemala
21 kms. 1100 mts D+
1 hr, 57min - Top 3% - 4 (total 135)
ECS, Utah Park City
84 kms. 3,050 mts D+
10hrs, 24min - Top 18% - 22 (total 121)
ECS, Washington DC
84 kms. 1,300 mts D+
9hrs, 17min - Top 11% - 44 (total 389)
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