“Charlie Rosner makes friends out of clients and clients out of friends, which frankly makes him a real in pain in the ass.”

“Charlie worked as a consultant to General Electric for almost a decade, delivering value across a broad set of roles including as a board member, as the Founding Chairman of a the only company GE Capital ever launched from scratch, as a strategy adviser and as one of the most creative marketing professionals I’ve met. Charlie provided spot-on advice and insight to a portfolio of early-stage GE-owned companies, and also worked as part of our multi-disciplined GE Capital turn-around team. Charlie brings real warmth and humor to his work and shows not only business acumen but a real love of people. Charlie was hugely valuable helping me deal with several difficult people situations, from coaching up a talented but temperamental CEO, to delicately handling the removal of an underperforming executive and then providing transition oversight in a fragile situation. I strongly recommend Charlie Rosner”

“Charlie has a unique understanding of the way a company can build and maintain an exceptional brand positioning. His ability to paint what he calls a “…holistic view from 80,000 feet” across our entire organization was invaluable. We flew him over to London at least twice a month for several years while he was Eagle Star’s Interim Director of Marketing, and if he didn’t find at least a million pounds of what he called ‘spillage’ on each trip, he was grief-stricken. I came to rely on Charlie for out-of-the- box yet pragmatic thinking and recommend him as an outstanding marketer and strategic thinker.”

“I worked closely with Charlie on the launch and building of Reinventing Stamford into a 900 strong citizen-activist initiative. Charlie saw the breakthrough potential from the get-go and helped us bring it roaring to life. His wise marketing counsel helped us steer clear of shoals that might otherwise have swamped us. He was extraordinarily generous in getting many brilliant, powerful people from his vast personal network to engage with us pro-bono. I see him as the bee that pollinates the flowers. Without him, there would be no fruit.”

“Charles Rosner may be thought of by others as a strategic marketer, or a positioning wizard able to create brand identities in a single bound, but to me he is the midwife of diabetesfamilies.com.

Charlie nurtured the idea of bringing self-help tools to families facing the current epidemic of Type 2 diabetes out of the Mount Sinai clinic and onto the internet and into the public discourse. He guided this novice and naïve entrepreneur through the creation of the initial business plan, from product development to funding and exit strategy, through all the steps of establishing a viable company.

Whenever help was needed he simply turned to his rolodex for lawyers, graphic artists, financial consultants, internet wizards, whoever was needed for our next step, from a veritable army of people ever-ready to do Charlie a favor for a good cause.

Very simply, without Charlie’s business expertise and boundless enthusiasm for cheering me on, Diabetes Families Inc. would not exist today.”