Charles Melcher was born on January 19, 1965, and raised in New York City, where he attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.

The company helps international brands (Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, PepsiCo, GE, and Lexus), media companies (Netflix, HBO, Time Warner, NBC, USA, TBS, and Condé Nast), and individual authors (Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart, Lin-Manuel Miranda, J.J. Abrams, Kobe Bryant, and Eminem) to tell their stories across a variety of media.

The FoST Summit draws a mix of thinkers and practitioners from diverse fields who are shaping storytelling in the twenty-first century.

Past FoST Summit speakers, workshop leaders, and performers have included Disney animator and director Glen Keane; Angela Ahrendts, former SVP of Retail at Apple; filmmaker Darren Aronofsky; choreographer Bill T. Jones; musician and band leader Jon Batiste; Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud; Niantic CEO John Hanke; and GE CMO Linda Boff.

Past engagements have included SXSW,[5] C2 Montréal,[6] EY Innovation Realized,[7] the Milken Institute Global Conference,[8] and Phi Centre's The New Storytellers.

[9] In 2019, Melcher and FoST were engaged as the official Executive Storytellers for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, which is currently scheduled to open to the public in 2025.