Bryan was born on March 4th, 1962. March forth is a command to move forward and that is exactly what Bryan does. In 1973 at 11 years old, Bryan won the, “I AM SOMEBODY” essay contest and was the star of the KABC nationally televised contest. His mother helped him write the essay however, Bryan spoke that he would be somebody into his reality from the impoverished Nickerson Gardens projects in Watts.
His mother, Mary Franklin, helped Bryan and his Brothers to believe that they can be anything they wanted to be without limits. His Brother, Dr. Rodney Franklin, MD, did it from the hood and their oldest Brother, Derick Franklin; A supervisor for the United States Postal Service, helped his younger brothers reach for the possible while living in the hood.
Bryan is considered one of the world's experts on the subject of Testing of Printed Circuit Boards. Being an expert in his field, General Electric called on his Technology Company to support their plastics division in the PCB industry. Bryan’s company, Franklin-Choi Corp.,(FCC), had telephone lines in GE’s facility, which were answered by GE’s personnel. When Clients across the nation called FCC’s lines in GE’s facility and ordered GE’s products, FCC got paid! Hence, Bryan knows how to earn money while he sleeps!
Bryan saw a need for reform in dot-com as well as in home based business modality, (best known as Multi-Level Marketing) and created MADvoice.com in 1998. (M.A.D. is an acronym for Making A Difference.) Bryan’s dot-com business was created before the dot-boom and is still here after the dot-bust and MADvoice.com has be re-branded as 1iMALL.COM to make it clear that there only needs to be 1 internet MALL!
Bryan is proud to have been selected to speak across the nation with some of the most respected names in the business like Les Brown, Gerri Detweiler, Tavis Smiley, George Fraser, and Jewel Diamond-Taylor just to name a few. He has also spoken at the Miller-Brewing company’s Entrepreneur Series and has strategic alliances with nurmerous Churches, Businesses, Schools, Private sector and Public. Bryan or one of his creations have been mentioned in numerous magazines and newspapers such as, Black Enterprise, Our Weekly, Rolling Out Newspaper, The Urban Business Journal and Who’s Who in Black Los Angeles.
