Charles Bracher is Concert Golf Partners new chief financial officer. He is responsible for leading the company’s finance, technology, and human resource functions.
Bracher brings over 25 years of finance experience in the consumer, retail and hospitality sectors. Since 2012, he has been the EVP and CFO for Grocery Outlet Holding Corp., a $4 billion publicly traded discount grocery store chain, where he oversaw finance, accounting, investor relations, internal audit, and risk management activities. Before that, Bracher was CFO at Bare Escentuals, Inc., a high-growth cosmetics and skincare company, publicly traded before being sold for $1.7 billion.
Earlier in his career, Bracher worked in finance roles at Goldman Sachs and Arnold Palmer Golf Management and with the eventual founders of Concert Golf, CEO Peter Nanula and COO Susan Dunnavant.
“Susan and I have known Charles since the late 1990s,” stated Nanula. “He brings a career’s worth of experience to us from building consumer businesses, working with private equity investors and completing an IPO. He knows the challenges facing larger companies as they continue to grow, from IT and HR to purchasing and planning. Now, after 25 years, we’ve truly come full circle as we welcome Charles to the Concert Golf leadership team.”
“I am thrilled to be joining Concert Golf Partners to help grow the business and support our mission of delivering great experiences to our private club members,” said Bracher. “I look forward to working with Peter, Susan and the entire Concert Golf team as we build upon our solid foundation and pursue the significant growth opportunity ahead of us.”
Bracher graduated with honors from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He resides in Napa Valley with his family.
Concert Golf Partners is a boutique owner-operator of top private golf and country clubs. Formed in 2011 by Nanula, founder and CEO of Arnold Palmer Golf Management in the 1990s, and Co-Founder and COO, Susan Dunnavant, Concert Golf has amassed $250 million of long-term equity capital to invest in private clubs. Concert Golf preserves the identity and traditions of historic clubs. Its upscale clubs now number 33 nationally, including formerly developer-owned clubs, including The Club at Longview in Charlotte, NC and The Club at Renaissance in Ft Myers, FL as well as longtime member-owned clubs, including the White Manor Country Club in Philadelphia, PA, The Muttontown Club on Long Island, NY and The Club at Pasadera in Monterey, CA.
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