Melanie Altarescu

Co-Founder Ask/Offer

Melanie Altarescu is the co-founder of ask/offer, a partnership strategy consultancy, and MTCHMKR, an AI-powered platform for discovering, evaluating, and managing brand partnerships. For more than 20 years, she has helped organizations uncover high-impact partnership opportunities that drive growth, cultural relevance, and measurable business value.

Her career spans leadership roles at The Wing, Artsy, The New Yorker, WIRED, and Vanity Fair, where she led partnership, sponsorship, and experiential strategy at the intersection of brands, media, culture, and community. Through ask/offer, Melanie advises companies on partnership strategy, go-to-market initiatives, sponsorships, and business development, helping organizations identify the right opportunities, build the right relationships, and create programs that deliver lasting impact.

She is currently building MTCHMKR, bringing the same strategic thinking into software. The platform combines AI with structured workflows to help organizations discover, evaluate, and manage partnerships more effectively, making a process that has traditionally relied on spreadsheets, intuition, and fragmented relationships more transparent and scalable.

Melanie's clients have included Snapchat, Kate Spade, WeightWatchers, Nanit, Forager Project, Maisonette, The Big Quiet, and the Fifteen Percent Pledge. She is known for uncovering meaningful connections, translating pattern recognition into practical strategy, and bringing clarity and structure to opportunities that might otherwise go unseen.