Charles Cohon is CEO and President of MANA. Cohon was founder of a very successful Chicago manufacturers' representative firm in Chicago which he operated for more than two decades before selling it to a key employee so he could become MANA's CEO. In 2005 Cohon earned an MBA with honors and with concentrations in strategic management and entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he “plays a key role in Chicago Booth’s Entrepreneurial Selling class by serving as a judge for MBA students’ final projects,” says Professor Craig Wortmann. Cohon spoke at Harvard Business School in 2015 about Sales Outsourcing, and earned the American Society of Association Executives Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation in 2016.