# Adrien Fraise

> Adrien Fraise is the CEO and founder of ModernGuild, a New York-based edtech company that pairs high school and college students with one-on-one career coaches and a structured online readiness program. A former Deloitte strategy consultant with degrees from Stanford and Columbia Business School, he launched ModernGuild in January 2011 after concluding that traditional early-career recruiting was broken: too many resumes, too little real review, and too much bias. He built the company into a mentoring marketplace that has served tens of thousands of students, partnered with employers like Citibank and Wells Fargo, and went through the Techstars accelerator in 2017.

- **Role:** CEO & Founder at ModernGuild
- **Organizations:** ModernGuild, Deloitte (former), Techstars (2017 cohort)
- **Education:** BA, Economics & Political Science, Stanford University, MBA, Columbia Business School
- **Known for:** Founded and leads ModernGuild, a career-mentoring edtech platform serving 20,000+ students, Built a mentoring marketplace using blinded dashboards, matching algorithms and predictive analytics to reduce bias in early-career recruiting, Drew 4,000+ student applications and 200 mentors in ModernGuild's first semester across 10 campuses

## Career timeline

- **2001** — Graduates from Stanford University with a BA in Economics & Political Science
- **2007** — Earns MBA from Columbia Business School
- **2007-2009** — Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting
- **2009-2011** — Manager at Deloitte Consulting
- **2011** — Founds ModernGuild in January; runs a 1:1 industry accelerator pilot at Connecticut College
- **2011** — First semester: 4,000+ student applications, 100 participants across 10 campuses, 200 mentors
- **2017** — ModernGuild joins the Techstars accelerator; expands to 20 schools
- **2020** — Announces partnership with Wells Fargo; pivots toward employer partnerships including Citibank

## Achievements

- Founded and leads ModernGuild, a career-mentoring edtech platform serving 20,000+ students
- Built a mentoring marketplace using blinded dashboards, matching algorithms and predictive analytics to reduce bias in early-career recruiting
- Drew 4,000+ student applications and 200 mentors in ModernGuild's first semester across 10 campuses
- Selected for the Techstars accelerator in 2017
- Forged employer partnerships with companies including Citibank and Wells Fargo
- Raised seed funding (roughly $1.43M total reported) to grow the company

## Latest updates

- **2020-06** — Announced a ModernGuild partnership with Wells Fargo as the company leaned further into employer-side partnerships.

## Links

- Website: https://modernguild.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/adrien-fraise-946a633
- Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/adrienfraise
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxt0EDlZ_Ww
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/modernguild

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