Our MD’s profile
Charles Roberts is a director of Bottom Line Focus having set up the business in 1996. BLF combines consultancy, business re-engineering, company secretarial, raising investment capital and executive search services.

The Executive Search business benefits from Charles’ commercial skills which have been gained operating businesses spanning 110 countries. He has lived on three continents and in 12 countries learning several languages and gaining deep understanding of many cultures and practices. The latter skills he brings to international assignments when identifying skills and attributes in candidates that would not usually be recognised by a domestic search firm.

Commercially he is professionally qualified as a chartered banker, accountant and treasurer. He has been a director in multi-billion pound turnover companies with his experience gained in aviation, banking, hotels, pharmaceuticals, shipping, manufacturing, engineering, construction and commodities. Head-hunted thrice into international groups, latterly he was a key team member in taking the turnover from £750m to £2.5 billion in three years whilst also being promoted from CFO to MD.

Earlier in his career, Charles was responsible for advising many of UK’s FTSE250 companies on issues ranging from re-engineering to implementing financial efficiency implementation techniques. (“company doctor”)

One of Charles more unusual successes was “building an ice rink in the desert”.

Charles is an excellent leader with very strong interpersonal skills. His incisive brain and business skills recognise strong talent which can be applied to a wide sector sometimes not apparent in the usual search process. His international experience brings a substantial advantage to our clients resulting in an outstanding record of success in placements which have substantially reduced client’s attrition rates and increased their retention rates of key personnel.

Charles’ experience of building successful management teams coupled with his ability to gain the confidence of people at all levels complements his strong determination that he and his consultants source and place “the best candidates in the right positions at the right time”.