Charlie Grosso

Founder & Executive Director, Hello Future

New York, NY

Charlie has 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur. Founding her first business at age 20, she became a successful advertising photographer working with Lexus, Nike, JC Penney, Comedy Central, and more. As a creative director, her clients include Paramount, Variety, and FX, to name a few. She has traveled and toiled in over 80+ countries, working as a writer, documentarian, and filmmaker with her photography work exhibited worldwide.

Charlie is a consultant specializing in strategic management and program design for social enterprises, tech/media companies, and NGOs before founding her own nonprofit, Hello Future. She is an Edmund Hilary Fellow, Kravis Leadership Moonshot Fellow, and a founding member of +Acumen's The Foundry. She currently serves as an advisor for several start-ups, including Pretty Deadly and Squawk Squad.

“With a unique understanding of audience needs, I leverage these insights into stories for your brand and your audience.”

Through these twenty years of an unconventional career path, storytelling has been the throughline, specifically stories about the invisible, from food markets across the world to the struggles of refugee teens. Charlie has carved out a unique career making the invisible, visible. Hello Future is the culmination of her lifelong passion for innovation and social justice.