Chuck Templeton Biography

Chuck Templeton is passionate about early stage and emerging companies and is focused on using business principles to find solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. He has had the pleasure of being involved with over two-dozen startups as an investor board member or advisor but spends the majority of his time helping impact companies as the Managing Director of Impact Engine.
He took his first big step as an entrepreneur in San Francisco when he founded OpenTable which went public on the NASDAQ in May of 2009 (OPEN). He helped build an industry leading company that changed the way full-service restaurants manage their top-line growth and diners make their dinner reservations. While CEO he recruited and hired the first management team obtained and allocated company resources led the business and product strategy and carefully crafted a highly dedicated culture. OpenTable is the global leader in restaurant reservations with customers in all 50 states and more than a dozen countries.
He used that experience to support the GrubHub team as an Advisor and Director. They grew to be a national leader in providing hungry diners with food delivery and take-out options while also helping independent restaurants use technology to operate more profitably.

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