Fred Frankel, Chairman of the Board, President and acting CEO

Mr. Frankel was a founding partner in the first Florida World Trade Center franchise approved. He has served as the President of the World Trade Center of Fort Lauderdale, Florida for over twenty years. Before and during that time, he has had an extremely successful 40-year career in the building and development arena and has been involved in the design, approval and development process for hundreds of millions of dollars of projects in Pennsylvania and Florida. Fred Frankel and Henrietta Frankel formed a small business investment company in 1962, Recreation Capital, which operated quite successfully for almost 10 years. They liquidated the company when the Frankels moved to Florida. During the time that the company was in existence and including the final liquidation distribution each of the original $5,000 investors had received a total of $93,000. Mr. Frankel designed, built and developed the original World Trade Center/Fort Lauderdale office building in Port Everglades and had it designated as a Foreign Trade Zone.

He has been honored as a Senior Fellow in Electronics Communications and was a member of the Florida Atlantic University Foundation. He was one of the original producers of the CD Rom used for product showcasing with Internet access for international trade shows. He has been a guest Lecturer at Nova University teaching areas of International Trade and global opportunities. He is a respected international visionary and is the primary organizer of the World Trade Center Showcase and other international programs.