Charlie O'Donoghue was born in Harare, Zimbabwe and holds an MSc in Nanotechnology from Rhodes University in South Africa. He entered the EV charging industry in 2017 at EV Driver, a startup CPO in Suffolk, where he rose to Technical Director. He joined Norwegian hardware manufacturer Easee in 2021 as an Integration Sales Engineer, built the company's first Global Integration Team, and became Head of Product for the UK. He is now a Solutions Architect at AMPECO, one of Europe's leading charge station management platforms.

He has appeared on the Fully Charged Show and is a certified Product Manager. This book grew out of a training course he developed to onboard colleagues and customers into EV charging operations.