Chuck Cloud began his career with his father, William Sr., at Curtiss Candy Company. The two were free roaming engineers there, charged with improving the efficiency of the manufacturing and packaging machinery in Curtiss’ Chicago facilities. Any money their efforts saved for Curtiss was set aside as "The Cloud-Curtiss Development Fund" (based on a hand-shake agreement) to perpetuate their efforts. They were wonderfully effective and the Cloud-Curtiss Development Fund flourished. So much so, that it was spun off and eventually led to the formation of Cloud Machine Corporation.

Cloud Machine Corporation was established in 1957 at a Curtiss plant in Chicago and moved to its own new building in Skokie IL in 1960. The company grew steadily through the decades and employed over two hundred employees by the nineteen nineties. The name was changed to Cloud Corporation in the late nineteen seventies, when the company briefly produced candy from a family recipe.. 

As President and Chairman, Chuck continually surprised all who worked along side him with his casual demeanor, his personal work ethic and his gentle, good-natured humor.

He was commonly seen up to his elbows in grease. His wife Alice noted the many ruined shirts - that no amount of cleaning could save. Employees found Chuck very approachable. Anyone who worked there could and often did talk with him.

His creativity led to numerous inventions that are in use throughout the world to this day, producing trillions of packages for hundreds of companies and millions of customers and countless products; Twist-wrappers, Hot-Dog Vacuum Packagers, Form-A-Bag machines (which became the popular Hayssen RT. Still manufactured today), Styrene Blisters for a variety of food products (non-dairy creamers, salt etc.), PVA (Poly Vinyl Alcohol) Blisters/Drum machine for water soluble blisters for soaps and disinfectants, filter packs for coffees foil/paper pouches for drink mixes, candies, puddings, condiments and soaps etc., and most notably, pouches for sugar and sugar substitutes - next time you’re in a restaurant, look for the little paper packets of sugar and you’ll find them. The "high-speed, horizontal, continuous motion pouch machine." is the most notable of Chucks inventions. His  name appears on 40 Patents.

Longtime customers included; Kraft Foods, G.D. Searle, General Foods, Dr. Oetker, Douwe Egberts Coffee, Domino Sugar, Florida Crystal, Morton Salt, Nestles, Hershey's, Mars, Planter's, Alberto Culver, Deans Foods, Fleischmann's, Lipton's, Campbell Soup, Pet Foods, Quaker Oats, Ralston Purina,Lever Brothers, Colgate Palmolive,  Wyler's, Procter and Gamble, Superior Coffee, Sweet and Low.

Cloud Corporation launched and sustained hundreds of careers. The average length of employment, at one random point in time, was 19 years.

Chuck’s success was twofold; he harnessed his genius for simple, effective solutions to customer’s needs and coupled his belief and trust in others to realize those solutions, turning concepts into reality, problems into solutions, customers into friends, and promises into trust.

Those who knew him invariably described him as honest, fair, humble, modest, patient and unique. And always – generous.

The employee's best interests were always very important to him. As majority stockholder and Chairman of the board, he could have insisted on his way in board meetings etc., but would only do so if he thought the employee’s best interests needed to be protected. He instigated, maintained and funded profit sharing for the employees in a manner that, today, is unheard of.

He was born in Peoria, Illinois, grew-up in Wilmette, attended New Trier High School, studied at Purdue University, and graduated from MIT in 1946 with a mechanical engineering degree.

Machines designed and built by Cloud Corporation are still running in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, Mexico, Russia, South America, Canada, and of course the U.S.

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