Charlie began his HVAC career in 1978, working for five years with various mechanical construction companies as a sheet metal worker, operations manager and sales engineer. Recognizing the need for high-caliber contractors in California’s growing construction industry, he founded Mesa in 1983 and played an integral role in the company’s growth from a small business with a solid reputation into a forward-looking, best-in-class service energy solutions contractor specializing in HVAC.

In 1998 Mesa launched the first ever mobile dispatching software system for technicians. $36 million was raised by Fieldxcentrix, Inc. (software company Mesa created) through venture capitalists. Fieldcentrix was sold to Astea International in 2004.

In 2012 he became convinced that the next frontier for buildings was maintaining building performance via continuous FDD (Fault Detection Diagnostics). For 6 years he and his team of experts reviewed and tested most of the systems on the market and were left disappointed and with the sense that no technology on the market had the complete solution to building performance and energy. In 2018 he founded Building Response Platform, LLC, a Delaware Corporation dba as BEMA. The goal was to create a “Building Manager in the Cloud” initially targeting the underserved market of buildings < 100,000 square feet, which comprises 90% of the building stock in North America.

Charlie is well known in the energy and HVAC industry as a visionary of future trends in energy and HVAC. Mesa Energy Systems’ reputation for successful roll outs of these new technologies is well thought of. BEMA is initially going to market as a white label called Mesa 365 and Mesa has contacts with most of the major customers and building owners in North America.