Charlie Horn is an entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education leader and philanthropist. After an 18 year career as an insurance industry sales executive and entrepreneur, Charlie innovated the nation’s first national retail-based consumer discount prescription drug program in 1994 that launched an industry and eventually led to CMS creating the Medicare Prescription Drug Part D plan in 2005. The company, ScriptSave, was founded by Charlie in his home office. In the year it was sold, 2013, patient/consumers saved in excess of $1.5 billion in out of pocket costs on everyday prescriptions.

In 2012, under the inspiration, guidance and funding of Charlie and his wife Patty, the University of Delaware established Horn Entrepreneurship. The programs’ initiatives have created new undergraduate and graduate level majors, minors and new cross campus Entrepreneurship certificate and co-curricular offerings for students in every college – something truly unique in American colleges. Horn’s Venture Development Center has become the campus hub at UD for entrepreneurial activity. Horn Entrepreneurship’s high school Diamond Challenge program is a Global Top 5 youth educational program that teaches the basic skills of social and business entrepreneurship to students in over half the U.S. states and 47 countries around the world and conducts an annual global business pitch competition and summit called YES! in Newark, DE.

Charlie is a member of the top ranked University of Arizona’s McGuire Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the University of Delaware’s Wall of Fame, one of only about 200 alumni out of 170,000 to be so recognized.

Charlie and his wife Patty also founded and co-chair The Touchstone Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit which provides funding to a variety of health care and family service charitable organizations, especially funding access to sanitary water in Africa.

He has a BA in Sociology from the University of Delaware, class of 1975, and served as captain of its highly successful golf team and held the career scoring record for 32 years. His wife of 43 years is Patty Horn, a former nurse and award winning singer and songwriter of children’s music. They live in Arizona and have two grown children entrepreneurs, four grandchildren, and one yellow lab.