Charles Antin
Charity & Commercial Auctioneer
Fundraising Consultant
Master of Ceremonies
With Charles’s help, you aren’t hoping for a success come auction day -
you are ensuring it.
Being on stage is only a small part of what makes a successful fundraiser - the work needs to be done prior. Whether your organization runs an established auction and paddle raise or you are putting together an event for the first time, Charles can offer insight into best practices.
He works with some of the longest-running fundraising auctions in the country, as well as organizations holding a fundraiser for the first time. He will be on as many or as few event calls as you wish, offering his past successes as a guide in ensuring the success of your campaign.
Fundraiser Auctioneering
Paddle Raise
or
Fund-A-Need
Commercial Auctioneering
Film & TV Auctioneering
Charles Antin has been a fundraising and commercial auctioneer since 2007.
Charles has auctioneered hundreds of benefits from Miami to Nashville to Jackson Hole to Los Angeles, Atlanta, Destin, San Francisco and Hong Kong – and, of course, many in the metro NYC area, where he is based.
These auctions range enormously in size and scope and cumulatively have raised tens of millions of dollars for charitable organizations. Charles has executed a $12,000,000 paddle raise and a $15,000 paddle raise. He’s auctioneered in front of 1,200 people and in front of 50. He’s sold 52 lots on stage auctioneering for over two hours straight, and performed auctions that contain a single lot, or paddle raises only (no lots at all!)
He has auctioneered on stage with celebs as diverse as Seth Meyers, Sean Penn, all three Clintons, Dikembe Mutombo, Matthew McConaughey, Paul Rudd, Alan Alda, John McEnroe, and Giants wide reciever and Super Bowl winner Victor Cruz.
On the commercial side, Charles is the Global Head of Wine Auctions at Zachys, and was both a commercial and charity auctioneer at Christie’s for close to a decade. He was also a NY State licensed commercial auctioneer at Christie’s (at the time of licensing the youngest at the firm), bringing down the gavel on thousands of lots and tens of millions of dollars of wine, watches, Post-War & Contemporary art, Asian art, and single-owner collections such as the collections of Robert H. Ellsworth and Huguette Clark.
Charles has also trained commercial and charity auctioneers and auctioneered for years for one of the biggest movie and TV memorabilia auction houses in the country.
Charles holds an MFA in fiction from NYU, a commercial pilot’s license, and his essays and fiction have appeared in Food & Wine, The New York Times, the VQR, and elsewhere.
