Prior to co-founding Affordable Luxury Network (ALN), Frank Lin was a Principal at Newbury Ventures, a Silicon Valley based VC firm. Before 2004, he was a Principal at Panasonic Ventures. Frank also worked as an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney's Global Technology Group in San Francisco. Previously, he was a Financial Analyst in the M&A Group of Salomon Smith Barney in New York. He was also a Summer Associate at Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division in Hong Kong.

Frank holds an A.B. with honors in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and an MBA from U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business.