Hardin Partners LLC advises early and growth stage companies and institutional partners evaluating consumer and infrastructure opportunities.

With over twenty years of operating and leadership experience in consumer and software start-up and growth companies and hundreds of products launched, we are ready to work with the next generation of builders looking to solve challenges impacting our communities and environment.

Margaret Hardin is a global products CXO and independent board director who increases shareholder value of innovative B2C and B2B2C companies by building brands that resonate, creating relevant go-to-market strategies, leading digital transformation and recruiting key talent needed to execute vision.

Throughout her career, Margaret has increased market share by creating roadmaps and go-to-market paths for hundreds of new product launches. Along the way, she has created repeatable and consistent launch processes to help quickly find product-market fit..

Recently, Margaret has led ESG initiatives to drive shareholder returns by introducing initiatives to enhance product lifespan and reduce greenhouse emissions, as well as creating re-commerce platforms.

As CEO of Ergobaby, Margaret revived and fostered product innovation while managing an omni-channel distribution, retail and eCommerce model across 60+ countries. And as President of Munchkin, she expanded category and geographic footprint and managed M&A activity.

She served on the Audit Committee of Iomega (NYSE: IOM), which exited to EMC.

Margaret earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a BBA from New Mexico State University.

Charles Hardin has twenty years experience in leading and managing software development at startups in Silicon Valley. He builds backend services and infrastructure that help solve climate and energy problems, and has deep experience in creating intellectual property portfolios with proven shareholder value.

As Principle Engineer at ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT), he oversees next generation products by utilizing his previous experiences from graphics, distributed storage, networking, embedded platform systems, cloud infrastructure, and application development. Charles also serves as an internal consultant to executives on engineering team hiring, process improvements, analyzing information security, and advocating for standards and definitions for the industry.

He was the first employee hired after closing the Series A funding at Exablox. He built an innovative distributed storage system based upon content addressable objects that culminated in an acquisition by StorageCraft.

At 2wire, acquired by Pace, PLC., Charles developed home networking as a consumer product in the residential gateway and broadband access markets.

Charles has been awarded two patents in the area of Storage and Networking.

He holds a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate Electrical Engineering degree from New Mexico State University.