Charles M. Cawley is a businessman and founding member of the bank MBNA

MBNA

MBNA Corporation was a bank holding company and parent company of wholly owned subsidiary MBNA America Bank, N.A., headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, prior to being acquired by Bank of America in 2006...

. MBNA was acquired by Bank of America

Bank of America

Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...

 in 2006. A graduate of Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

, he created the bank in 1982.

Local Support in Maine

In the early 1990s he created the Northeast Regional Marketing Center in Camden, Maine

Camden, Maine

Camden is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,254 at the 2000 census. The population of the town more than triples during the summer months, due to tourists and summer residents. Camden is a famous summer colony in the Mid-Coast region of Maine...

. It was representative of the marketing centers, and it also marked a tie to Cawley's past: his grandfather had once operated dress factories in Camden and nearby Belfast

Belfast, Maine

Belfast is a city in Waldo County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,668. Located at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River on Penobscot Bay, Belfast is the county seat of Waldo County...

, and Cawley was familiar with the area because he had spent summers nearby at his family's Lincolnville Beach estate. Mr. Cawley was inducted into the Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement or JA or JA Worldwide is a non-profit youth organization that was founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and senator Winthrop M. Crane. JA focuses on educating kids in K-12 about the free enterprise system...

U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2005.
Charles Cawley supported the youth and the building of the youth center in Camden Maine. Charles Cawley worked with long time stained glass artist Brian Gebo and supported an art contest at the youth center and the winner was selected from the youths drawings and a stained glass window was made for the youth center as a result.
Cawley currently resides in Camden.