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Charlie Balsam is a human being from planet Earth. He has many interests, including but not limited to food, technology and music. He combines these interests with skills in project management, community building and strategic communications to help other humans, also on earth.

Food

  • The Migrant Kitchen

    As head of Marketing and a founding team member of The Migrant Kitchen, Charlie helped transform a small catering operation into a coveted fast casual food brand with 3+ locations in NYC that has been praised by The New York Times, NBC, Eater, The James Beard Foundation and more.

  • Feed The Polls

    Feed The Polls is a partnership between The Infatuation, Zagat, and The Migrant Kitchen. We served 40,000 meals at 60 polling locations in 15 states around the country on election day 2020.

  • NYC Emergency Meals

    At the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, alongside TMK Initiative and the NYC Office of Emergency Management , Charlie led a team of 6 logistics specialists and a fleet of 30 delivery drivers to deliver 60,000 meals a week to food insecure families in New York City and the surrounding area. In 2020 Charlie and his team delivered over 2 million meals to New Yorkers in need.

Tech

  • WeWork

    From 2018 - 2020 Charlie managed member experience at some of WeWorks largest and most visible locations including WeWork Times Square, WeWork Charging Bull and Dock 72 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He may or may not have been involved in facilitating some of the more frivolous parties and events the company is now infamous for…

  • Uber

    Based out of the original NYC HQ, Charlie was an early Uber employee that wore many hats including driver operations, employee training and customer support. By far the coolest project Charlie took on (in his opinion) was managing the rider lost & found department for the NYC market. People leave a lot of interesting things in Ubers…

Music

In his spare time, Charlie combines audio and visual media to create artistic experiences under the alias Maslab.

To explore further head to maslab.me

 

 

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