It was her grandfather, John T. Dorrance, the one who invented condensed soup and founded the Campbell Soup. She has been sitting on the company's board since 1990 along with her cousins Bennett Dorrance and Mary Alice Dorrance Malone. As an equestrian, Colket is president and CEO of Live Oak Properties, as well as she manages Live Oak Stud. The latter is a 4,500-acre thoroughbred farm and commercial cattle operation located in Ocala, Florida. This makes her split her time between New York and Florida. Being a graduate of the l'Ecole du Louvre in Paris and a patron of the arts, Charlotte Colket also sits on the chairman's council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1988, she donated a collection of Chinese art worth $20 million to the museum. As for her Live Oak Foundation, it supports women's and children's initiatives like the New York Women's Foundation and Work to Ride in Philadelphia. In other words, it's an organization that gives a chance to the disadvantaged urban youth to ride and take care of horses.
