Charles Nowlin

Charlie recently retired as the Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of McWane, Inc., having served since 2004. He was the Vice President and Controller from 1991 to 2004. He started with McWane in 1980 working in corporate accounting, including financial accounting, acquisitions, taxes, and pensions. From 1977 to 1980 he worked at the Birmingham office of Coopers & Lybrand on the audit staff.

As SVP and CFO he managed the financial functions of McWane, Inc., including the accounting, treasury, risk management and information technology aspects of the corporation. McWane operates over forty plants in several countries with sales of approximately $2 billion. He also directed several ad hoc groups to purchase ERP software for multiple entities, process improvement teams at various locations and directed the finance team as the company grew from approximately $160 million in sales to almost $2 billion.

According to their website, the McWane family of companies “cast ductile iron products, including pipe, valves, hydrants, fittings, and plumbing products; manufacture fire extinguishers, fire suppression systems and steel pressure vessels; and build network switches and monitoring equipment” throughout the world at over 40 plants and four technology companies. Their technology companies provide advance technology monitoring, networking, and communication capabilities for public safety networks, municipal and electric utilities, and campus-wide situations. In 2021, they will celebrate 100 years of operations.

He graduated from the University of Alabama in Birmingham with a B.S. in accounting in 1976 and earned his C.P.A. certificate in 1979.

He retired from McWane in 2021 and moved to Tampa to be closer to his children and grandchildren.