Charlton Hook

Charlton is an Investment Executive in Illuminate Financial’s NYC Deal team, focusing on enterprise fintech startups from seed to Series A. Charlton has focuses on supporting and investing in companies enabling ESG investing, carbon offsetting, and blockchain technologies. Previously, Charlton worked at Capital One in the marketing, analytics, and strategy group supporting the Commercial Bank. Before that Charlton worked at Prudential Financial in the Chief Investment Office where he did asset liability management for retirement portfolios with cumulatively $100B+ AUM. While at Prudential, Charlton passed all three levels of the CFA exam. He graduated with a B.S. in Finance, a B.A. in Economics, and a minor in mathematics from Rutgers university and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he served as Co-president of Microlumbia.