Charles Wagner

Charlie has deep corporate finance and health care experience, including more than a decade in public and private company Chief Financial Officer roles. He joined Vertex in 2019 and oversees the accounting, finance, internal audit, investor relations, business development transactions and alliance management, and global security and facilities functions.

He holds a B.S. in accounting from Boston College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Before joining the Vertex leadership team, he held leadership roles at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (a Carlyle Group portfolio company), Bruker Corporation, Progress Software Corporation and Millipore Corporation.