Healthcare compliance SaaS · Forest Hills, NY

Customer Success leader.

Eight years leading Customer Success for healthcare compliance SaaS companies.

$10MARR supported
98%Customer retention
1,000’sUsers supported

What I do

The work
01

Build the function

Twice I have started Customer Success from nothing: the strategy, the structure, the operating model, and the playbooks that make it run. Once with a team of four, once alone.

02

Run it on automation

Health scoring, risk alerts, and onboarding sequences in HubSpot, Zapier, and Mixpanel, so one person can look after thousands of users and act before an account goes quiet.

03

Own the whole lifecycle

Onboarding through adoption, renewal, and expansion. I carry what customers say back to Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales, and it moves the roadmap: the GDPR rollout shipped four to six weeks sooner because of it.

Three builds

2015 to now
Compliancy Group2015 to 2020
Director of Customer Success

Joined as one of the first four employees and built Customer Success from the ground up, then hired and led a team of four. Automated onboarding, satisfaction surveys, and NPS, and reported retention, CSAT, and NPS to the C-suite.

98%retention95%CSAT12%fewer support requests17%more MSP upsell and cross-sell
AccountableHQ2022 to 2025
Director of Customer Success

Built the function from scratch as a department of one and ran it on automation instead of headcount: 35+ playbooks, health scoring and risk alerts, and a Vitally to Custify to HubSpot migration delivered three months early.

$10MARR at 98% retention35+playbooks launched9 weeksto onboard, down from 1286%first-contact resolution, up from 72%
One Guy Consulting2025 to now
Founder

Founded and operate a solo software and consulting business that makes it easy for customers to build practical, modern HIPAA compliance plans. Lead product strategy, software development, customer success, consulting delivery, sales, marketing, and end-to-end business operations.

SEO + GEOinbound acquisition30 mincompliance assessmentsHIPAAcompliance blog

In their words

Colleagues and press
Guest on Rebecca Novetsky’s “Next Hire” podcastListen on Spotify

“Charles is a master of automation, allowing him to operate with the output of a much larger team while working as a department of one.”

Omar BarazanjiMachine Learning / MLOps / Agentic AI Engineer

“There is no customer service issue that he cannot solve. His empathy and patience know no bounds.”

Barry Devin HeckerDirector of Product Management

“He looks at solving customer success issues as a unique puzzle, requiring attention be provided to each circumstance in a way that customers rarely receive these days, but definitely appreciate and remember.”

John SherlingChief Mechanical Engineer

Tools and credentials

In daily use
HubSpotCustifyVitallyIntercomMixpanelZapiern8nCustomer health scoringCRM workflowsSelf-hosted SupabaseClaude CodeMCP servers

Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP)

Google certifications in cybersecurity: foundations, managing risk, networks, Linux and SQL, assets and threats, and an introduction to AI

Binghamton University, BA

Open to Director-level Customer Success roles.

Remote, or in New York City.