Frank Braski

Frank Braski is the Chief Entrepreneurial Officer (CEnO) and Director of Enterprising Culture at the Greater Columbus Georgia Chamber of Commerce.  In this role, Frank leads the region’s incubator for pre-venture and high-growth startups, and is helping develop an angel and orca investment network to bolster entrepreneurship efforts as part of the Chamber’s Economic Development team and Columbus 2025 initiative. Frank has worn a variety of entrepreneurial hats over his 30-year career from building and programming robots to being chief technologist and system architect for technology startups.  He has a decade of international consulting experience as a managing principal at IBM, local business experience in innovation, market research and new product development. In 2015, Frank helped found ColumbusMakesIT, the local Center for Creativity and Entrepreneurship – a non-profit educational makerspace.  In 2016, he created the RiverCity Foundry startup accelerator to help area startups find product-market-fit, while collaborating with many partners to improve access to knowledge, networking, building relationships, and providing access to 21st century tools and investment for local entrepreneurs.