I’ve known Charles since about 2012. We met in a tin mine in Cornwall. He’s an expert in sustainable textiles (particularly sports apparel), a sky diver, and a thoroughly good egg. Charles returned to a damp, dark, windy, & cold UK in the late 80s having been an Outward Bound Instructor in the US so went into the technology of clothing as opposed to standing around outside. In those days we all wore hand-me-down woolen jumpers & Peter Storm Cagoules (which made you as wet on the inside as the weather gave you on the outside). Within a decade Goretex & fleece were everywhere, but the aesthetic were Ron Hill Tracksters & Buffalo tops (helps you to resemble a sack of spuds). Somehow he got nominated to teach on the first postgrad course in Performance Sportswear Design, a role he has kept going over the last two & a half decades. It is the best job in the world: focusing the next generation of designers at Arc'teryx, Patagonia, The North Face, adidas, & so on. Every year the questions get harder from a sustainability point-of-view, so he has had to work out how selling more stuff is acceptable in this world - & then pressure companies to improve (plus appear on H of C Select Committees)! He is a comer-in to Yorkshire; the Outdoors keeps him mentally healthy.