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Architect Frank Mruk led strategy and innovation efforts on Wall Street for American International Group and Morgan Stanley, in Hollywood for Mike Nichols and Nester Almendros, and in academia as an Associate Dean at the NY Institute of Technology, he also led strategy and innovation efforts at Turkish Aga Khan winning Architect Emre Arolat's NY office and at Cendant Corp. He has taught at the New School, Parsons School of Design, New York University, Roger Williams University, School of Visual Arts, RISD and at the New York Institute of Technology.
Frank’s career has focused on Climate Tech Acceleration: Strategy, Innovation, and Transformation. In print media he has been interviewed/quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Brooklyn Newspaper, the Staten Island Advance, NY Newsday, the National Real Estate Investor, Swedish Design Research Journal, Bespoke Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine and Entrepreneur India. In other media, he has been interviewed by CCTV (China), Long Island News Tonight, and National Public Radio (NPR) and he gave a TED talk at TED Global in Oxford 2009, and at TEDxNYIT, TEDxUCONN and TEDxFallRiver.
Mruk was the founder and president of the Center for Strategic Innovation where he worked with Apple Computer and Goldman Sachs, and at the Center for Smart Building Technology where he worked with Harvard and Northeastern Universities. He is author/team leader which produced the 1st edition of the International Association for Strategy Professionals BODY OF KNOWLEDGE and the ASP Strategic Management and Planning Professional STUDY GUIDE. He also authored the Institute of Management Accountant's Certified in Strategy and Competitive Analysis (CSCA) program.
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Frank has the unique honor of being the only individual to be elevated to Fellowship by the American Institute of Architects , the Strategic Planning Society / International Association for Strategy Professionals, and awarded the the 2023 AIA Morse Stone Fellowship. He graduated from Pratt Institute, Lubin Business School at Pace University and the Said Business School at Oxford University.
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