About Us
Advisors to Family Businesses
and Family Offices
Big Canyon Advisors Inspires
Families to Achieve their Legacy for
the Next 100 Years
We are inspired by the legacy families have already built and by the opportunity to help them extend that legacy into the future. Having advised hundreds of family enterprises, we bring perspective on what works, where challenges arise, and how thoughtful structure and planning can support both the family and the business over time.
Our work begins by listening. We seek to understand your purpose, your vision, and the dynamics of your family and enterprise. From there, we work alongside you and your advisors to address key challenges and design solutions aligned with your long-term goals.
Who We Serve
Big Canyon Advisors advises successful multigenerational families, family businesses, and family offices navigating the complexity that comes with growth, wealth, ownership, and generational transition.
Our clients often include family enterprises preparing for leadership or ownership transitions, families strengthening governance and strategic planning, established family offices seeking greater effectiveness, and families determining whether or how to build a family office. We also work with families preparing the next generation for future roles as owners, leaders, and stewards.
While every family is different, our clients share a common objective: to thoughtfully prepare their people and enterprises to thrive across generations and achieve a lasting family legacy.
Families typically engage Big Canyon Advisors when they are:
- Preparing for a leadership, ownership, or generational transition
- Creating, evaluating, or evolving a family office
- Strengthening governance or establishing a long-term strategic direction
- Preparing the next generation for future leadership, ownership, and stewardship
As Seen On
Charlie Carr
Founder
Charlie founded Big Canyon Advisors in 2020 after nearly 20 years of working with family businesses and family offices. Previously, he founded the family enterprise consulting practices at both Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, providing solutions for families, their family businesses and their family offices.
Charlie has worked in professional services for over 30 years, as a consultant, banker and wealth advisor. He has worked exclusively with very wealthy families, their businesses and their family offices for more than 25 years. His work focuses on family business continuity, family office advisory, governance, strategic planning, and preparing families and their enterprises for future generations.
He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Management from Baylor University and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®.
Charlie coached youth baseball for 15 years and has developed and taught a personal finance class for high school students. He and his wife (Melanie) have 3 sons (and two grandsons!) and live in Flower Mound, Texas.
Charlie Carr, Jr.
Partner
Charlie Jr. joins Big Canyon Advisors as Partner, bringing a cross-sector background to the firm's family business and family office advisory practice. Charlie's work includes next-generation leadership development, and he leads The Charge, the firm's 12-month leadership mentorship program for young men from family enterprises.
Charlie spent seven years as a U.S. Army Infantry officer in the airborne community, commissioning through Army ROTC at Baylor University and separating as a Captain. Stationed at JBER, Alaska and Fort Polk, Louisiana, he served across a range of operational roles before transitioning to a career in government consulting, where he advised senior defense and government stakeholders on organizational strategy, governance, AI modernization, and data management. He concluded his government consulting career as Deputy Program Manager.
Charlie holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and is pursuing an MBA with a Cybersecurity concentration at Baylor University, where he also earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship.
Charlie's training in AI modernization, cybersecurity, and organizational governance brings a differentiated perspective to the complex challenges facing family offices and enterprises today.
Outside of work, Charlie and his wife Brittany live outside Seattle, Washington, with their two Labs, Remington and Sitka — and spend their time outdoors skiing, hiking, hunting, and fishing.
Melanie Carr
Family Advisor
Melanie Carr is a family advisor with Big Canyon Advisors, LLC and has supported wealthy families, their businesses and family offices for over ten years.
As a certified Working Genius® facilitator, Melanie works with family and leadership teams to better understand their strengths, improve collaboration, and navigate the interpersonal dynamics that often accompany organizational and generational transitions.
For 20 years, she has served as president of the Bakers Branch Estates Homeowners’ Association and run multiple businesses. She homeschooled her three children and enjoys serving the community in various volunteer roles.
