About Charlie

Charlie McVeigh has more than 25 years’ experience building brands and businesses. He works closely with entrepreneurial companies on strategy, fund-raising and exit. Recent investments and board roles have included Foodstuff, Brewser, The Breakfast Club and Butchies Buttermilk Fried Chicken. 

Charlie’s career began as a financial journalist at The Daily Telegraph in 1991 before moving into management consulting (1995-99) where he worked with a boutique consulting firm advising Procter & Gamble on the expansion of their TV Production activities into Europe and then Asia, ultimately setting up offices in Beijing and Manila.

In 1999, Charlie returned to London from Asia and embarked on his first entrepreneurial venture with the acquisition of a freehold nightclub in West London, Woody’s. This marked the start of a 20-year stint as an owner operator in which he built and sold five hospitality businesses, culminating in the founding, development, and successful sale of The Draft House, by then a group of 16 craft beer pubs, to BrewDog PLC in 2018.

Charlie is an in-demand speaker at industry events and appears in BBC2's Million Pound Menu as an investor-judge (now available on Netflix). He now also works alongside TV personality Fred Sirieix as a trustee of The Right Course, a charity which converts prison canteens into training restaurants for inmates leading to jobs in the hospitality sector on release.