Charles Odom

Charles Odom oversees Cox Enterprises’ finance functions, including accounting, tax, audit, planning, analysis and treasury and financial reporting. He also leads risk management programs and pension investments for the company and its subsidiaries.

Odom joined Cox in 1996, serving as senior vice president and chief financial officer for Cox Media Group (CMG). He was responsible for all financial accounting and reporting, financial planning and analysis, financial systems and finance process improvement for CMG’s media companies, including CoxReps’ national advertising representation firms and Valpak.

Most recently, he served as senior vice president of corporate finance and treasurer of Cox Enterprises, where he led the teams responsible for enterprise finance, retirement investments, corporate financial planning and analysis, finance systems, treasury operations and capital markets.

Prior to Cox, Odom worked for Deloitte as a senior accountant. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Mercer University and completed the Kellogg Management Institute program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.