Brian J. Mattlin and Lee R. Mandell, the principals in Mattlin Mandell, bring a diverse, even eclectic set of skills and experiences to their work and partnership. One thing they share in common is an early recognition of the power of interactive media and the long standing pursuit of its ever-increasing potential. Brian's earliest interactive multimedia work was in the late 1980's at Exhibit Technology, Inc., one of the pioneers in bringing digital interactive media into museums and corporate presentations. Lee began even earlier at AT&T, long renowned for its ground-breaking research & development activities.

Brian and Lee crossed paths a number of times in the relatively small community of New York interactive developers and worked together on several projects in the 90's. So in the fall of 1997, when Toronto-based agency ICE asked Brian to join them to create and head up an Interactive Services Group in their nascent New York office, Lee was the first person he turned to, to join and help lead the team. For the next three years they worked together, building and guiding a team that produced distinctive interactive work for clients such as Clairol, The Golf Club Online, HP, IBM, Nova Information Systems and Sony Consumer Electronics. In early 2000 they joined a new company backed by The Wolf Group, to provide interactive services to agency and non-agency clients. Building a new team at the new shop, they continued to work with certain long standing clients such as Sony, while developing new accounts such as Intria-HP, and working closely with the agency on accounts such as The Bay, Häagen-Dazs, and the Gartner/G2.

In the summer of 2002 Lee and Brian decided to start their own shop. As a company, Mattlin Mandell remains committed to providing its clients with thoughtful, useful, well-designed interactive experiences that meet the marketing, communications and business needs of their owners and the informational and functional needs of their clients and visitors.