Charles Wace

Charles Wace is a British businessman, and the founder of the media group Twofour, a factual, features and entertainment television production and content agency. Wace stepped down as chief executive (CEO), following a sale of the group to LDC (Lloyds Development Capital) in 2013.

Wace is now CEO of Limesnapper, which invests in a range of businesses that have intellectual property at their heart. It has also invested in residential and commercial property in London, South West England and the West Indies.

Wace is chairman of the Creative England Trading Company and adirector of Creative England.[1] He chaired the UK independent trade body Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) for two years.[2] Wace is chairman of Beagle Media, a corporate communications company.[3] He is deputy chair of Falmouth University,[4] and a member of the its ventures board.

In 2012 the University of Plymouth awarded Wace an honorary doctorate. In 2010, Wace was awarded a Devon & Cornwall Royal Television Society outstanding achievement award for services to television.

Wace started his career in newspapers, before moving to BBC radio and television where he worked as a reporter and producer, before establishing Twofour in 1988.

His brother is British born financier, Ian Wace, co-founder of a London-based hedge fund.

References
  1. "who we are".
  2. "Homepage". www.pact.co.uk.
  3. http://www.beaglecreate.co.uk/team
  4. "Staff profiles | Falmouth University". www.falmouth.ac.uk.
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