Charles Wells is managing director of Kinship Networking, a division of Wells Media which he founded in 2005.

Charles spent four years working on marketing strategy at Ogilvy, where he headed up the UK GlaxoSmithKline and Nestle teams. He then helped set up Mather Communications, Ogilvy’s sister agency, where he worked as new business director.

Charles’ interests in social networking are rooted in his biological sciences studies at Balliol, Oxford where he was intrigued by the links between neurology and social behaviour. He founded Wells Media in 2005 to provide services to firms seeking to tap into the power of social networking. Most recently he helped create and refine the concept of the wimsicl© platform, which forms the core of Kinship Networking.