Brian Frankel is the Managing Director of the Marketing and Web-Technology consulting firm, Avant.io. He has provided services for Coca Cola, MySpace, SpinMedia, the Intelligence Group at CAA, WayFounder, Innovation Protocol, Contract Cloud, Keith Ferrazzi and Estee Stanley. He recently co-founded the Dubai-based e-commerce platform, Wasta Tickets, serving the entertainment industry in the Middle East and North Africa.

In 2012, Brian founded Mentor Matchmaker, a consulting firm that builds mentorship programs for organizations, universities and nonprofits. His unique and proven system on how mentor relationships should be initiated and developed is the foundation for his pedagogy and program structure. The firm has implemented cohorts for Women in Business, STEM professionals, Entrepreneurs and Victims of sex-trafficking. Mentor participants from: Cisco, Monsanto, Raytheon, St. Jude, SpaceX, Fox, Citrix, Channel Factory, Westfield, CoolHaus, LA DWP, DCFS, TiE SoCal, etc.