Charles L. Brodsky is a Washington, DC-based event and entertainment executive and entrepreneur. He is a graduate of the George Washington University with a degree in finance and received his Juris Doctorate from The John Marshall Law School.
After graduation from Law School, Mr. Brodsky became an executive with Thompson Corporation’s BAR/BRI Bar Review Division as the Director of the Eastern Region where he managed hundreds of salespeople and passed the bar exam in Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, Delaware, Connecticut, Colorado, and the District of Columbia. He also taught Administrative Law, Personal Property Law and Professional Responsibility and Ethics.
Mr. Brodsky joined Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) in late 1999 when it was still a rapidly growing private company and held various roles within its sales organization and quickly rose to Vice President of Sales for its Government and Corporate Division, now a $60m plus operating unit of the company.
In 2005, Mr. Brodsky founded Washington Sports and Event Management LLC to bring high profile mass participation events to the District of Columbia. As a successful Ironman and ultra endurance athlete, he built The Nation’s Triathlon brand into the largest triathlon in North America and the Washington DC Triathlon brand into the fastest growing triathlon in North America. Through these two branded events, tens of thousands of participants have advanced their goals of leading healthy lifestyles. To date, he has competed in more than 100 endurance events.
In 2007, Mr. Brodsky founded Achieve Kids Tri Inc. a 501(c) non-profit organization that produces youth triathlon summer camps. As Chairman of the Board of Achieve, he has overseen the organization as it has become the largest and most successful youth triathlon summer camp of its kind in the country. He has also guided Achieve through partnerships with USA Triathlon, the DC Department of Recreation and other public/private partnerships in camp locations in Atlanta, Waterbury, CT, and Houston, TX. Achieve youth triathlon summer camps are six weeks long, five days per week and four hours per day. At camps’ end each athlete competes in a USAT sanctioned triathlon and receives a Presidential Active Lifestyle Award for their effort during camp.
In 2010, Mr. Brodsky became a founding shareholder and Chief Financial Officer of Triathlon America Inc., a for profit triathlon industry council founded by a coalition of industry leaders who saw the need for the triathlon business community to come together in an organization dedicated to promoting the sport and the business of triathlon. Triathlon America’s mission is to leverage the knowledge, talent, and resources of industry leaders in triathlon to the benefit of the sport by increasing and retaining advocates of triathlon and by fostering a positive image of the sport.
Mr. Brodsky has also held the position of Chairman of the District of Columbia Alcohol Beverage Control Board where he served for more than three years. In this position he oversaw all of the alcohol sales and distribution in the District of Columbia as well as responsibility for enforcement of alcohol laws, rules and regulations with an Agency staff of 50 and an annual budget just over $5m.
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