Charlotte Guyman is a director and a strategic advisor with more than 35 years of experience in the technology industry and 19 years as a director for public, private and not-for-profit entities in healthcare, education, insurance, energy, transportation, manufacturing, tourism, construction and consumer businesses. Charlotte worked at Microsoft Corporation from 1987-1999, ultimately serving as General Manager in the consumer division. During this Microsoft tenure, she was General Manager of Kids and Games software, MSN Sales & Sales Marketing, as well as Director of International Marketing and Director of Consumer Division Marketing. Prior to business school she had a 5-year career at Hewlett Packard in technology sales and systems engineering management.
Charlotte has been a Director of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. since 2003, serving on the Finance & Audit Committee. She is also a Director for the Space Needle Corporation where she is on the Compensation and Governance committees (most recently as Chair of the latter) and on the Advisory Board for Brooks Running. She was also the independent Director for Seattle start up Pro.com. Guyman has been a Trustee for the global NGO Save the Children since 2007 and she currently serves on the Executive & Audit committees, she is Chair of the Program Quality committee and the Child Safeguarding Trustee. Charlotte was chairman of the University of Washington Medicine board and served on that board from 2000-2010. She currently serves on the governing board of the Brotman Baty Insitute for Precision Medicine at the University of Washington. In addition, Guyman is a Strategic Advisor Partner at the consulting firm, Cameoworks and a co-founder of Board Ready—a not for profit working to get more women and people of color on boards.
She has been happily married for 33 years and has three children ages 32, 30, and 2—all of whom work in technology. Guyman loves being in nature, sailing, skiing, cycling and running. She has a B.S. in Zoology and an MBA from the University of Washington.