Compugen Staff Profile: Michael Charter, VP, Software

by Norman Schumann

Each issue, we are going to profile a member of Compugen with the purpose of giving you a more personal look at their accomplishments outside of the workplace.

Michael has responsibility for overseeing all aspects of Compugen’s Software Solutions business which has two specific responsibilities Software Licensing Services and Software Asset Management. He works actively with all the many strategic Software Publishers that Compugen resells or uses within the various Lines of Business.

Just thought you would like to know…

Michael is involved in various groups including CHAA (Canadian Harvard Aircraft Assn.) Dive Recovery team, BAAC (British Aviation Archaeological Council) and NAS (Nautical Archaeological Society). Their primary interest is to search, locate and identify WWII-era Harvard training aircraft.

Harvard Aircraft

The Harvard aircraft is a single seat advanced training aircraft and was the principal aircraft used by the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, a massive air-training program. At the plan’s peak, there were 107 schools and 184 ancillary units at 231 sites in Canada, and, during this period, over a 1,000 crashes occurred, many in the abundant lakes in Canada. The purpose of the Dive recovery team is to locate and identify these crashed aircraft and recover missing airman, many whom are still with their aircraft and arrange for a military burial.

This team consists of professional divers that have dedicated their time to these projects and have enrolled in the Nautical Archaeology Survey Course. They are legally permitted to survey aircraft locations, which the CHAA-Recovery Team has chosen. The CHAA-Recovery Team is currently reviewing eight potential projects.

Random Data

Favourite Recreation – Scuba/Technical Diving and Marine archaeology

Favourite Quote – There are three kinds of people “those that watch things happen, those that wonder what happened and those that make things happen”. Which one are you?

Favourite Reading interests – History, specifically British history 1700 to 1950

Favourite Food – Bread

Favourite Drink – Beer (malt)