Charles Rowe CPA

WADSWORTH, OHIO

Captain of United States Rifle Team (F-T/R).  Distinguished Rifleman. NRA Endowment member. Nominated by NRA Nominating Committee. Certified Public Accountant.  Extensive experience in private equity as CEO and board member.  Broad business experience.  Well-versed in all facets of management, finance, corporate governance, guiding companies through economic downturns, turnarounds, crisis management. Highly involved in NRA competitive shooting sports.  Earned High Master classification in numerous High Power Rifle disciplines.GSM Master Instructor. Teaches operation of vintage military rifles (Garand and Springfield). Trustee & Match Director at Alliance Rifle Club. Helped expand the shooting facility to 1000 yards to accommodate more shooters and matches. Regularly work with new shooters and juniors to bring them into the sport.  Coached Team USA to Silver Medal at World Championships in South Africa in 2023. Won numerous team and individual NRA National Championship titles. Received NRA Master Distinguished Coach Medal.  Life-long gun owner since early childhood.

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and am a CPA (Certified Public Accountant).  I have spent my career working in Private Equity, either serving as CEO (Chief Executive Officer) or as a member of the Board of Directors, and am well-versed in all facets of management, finance and corporate governance, and have routinely served on many audit and finance committees of these Boards.

I have been a gun owner since childhood, and have been a life-long ardent supporter of the 2nd Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms.  I consider it the fundamental freedom that ensures and guarantees all our other freedoms.  I am highly active in the shooting sports, and hold NRA High Master classifications in Highpower, Long Range, Mid-Range, F-Class, and International Fullbore.

I have been a long time member of the USNRT (United States National Rifle Team), both as shooter and coach, as well as the United States F-Class Rifle Team, and I currently serve as Captain for Team USA F-T/R and will lead the US team to Bisley, England for the World Championships there in 2026.  I most recently served as Coach for the United States F-T/R team during the World Championships in South Africa in 2023, where we earned a Silver Medal for the USA.

My wife (the current NRA National Mid-Range Rifle Champion) and I actively compete all over the country and the world, having represented the United States in Canada multiple times (most recently being a firing member of the US team which won the Canada Match in 2023), England and South Africa, as well as competing at the NRA US National Matches every year.

I have won over a dozen NRA National Championship titles, both team and individually, and hold several National Records.  I was also awarded the NRA President’s Master Distinguished Coach medal.

I have volunteered as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alliance Rifle Club in Malvern, Ohio, for nearly ten years, and act as Match Director for the club, where we host over forty matches annually, consisting of Across the Course Highpower matches, Mid-Range, Long Range and Palma matches.  I also am the President of the Ohio-Pennsylvania Rifle League.

I believe I could make a valuable contribution to the NRA Board should I have the honor of being elected.