A native of Bardstown, Kentucky, Frank joined the KAM team in December 2021 after holding leadership roles in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.
Frank was an advisor to a transportation safety technology start-up in Louisville before joining KAM. He previously served three years as an appointee of Governor Matt Bevin and Governor Andy Beshear as the chief of staff of the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, where he helped manage a dozen Kentucky state government agencies with some 1,800 team members and a $280 million annual budget. During his state government service, Frank served a year in an additional role as the acting commissioner of Kentucky’s wildlife management and conservation agency, leading a team of 400 scientists, law enforcement officers, and other public servants and managing an $80 million annual budget.
For more than a decade, Frank advised companies and prominent institutions on public affairs issues in Washington, D.C., and state capitols across the country as a principal of Atticus Ventures, where his work included leading the public affairs initiatives here in the U.S. of the Property Council of Australia. Among Atticus’s other clients were the Smithsonian Institution’s Wilson Center, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Churchill Downs Inc., other Fortune 500 companies, and a number of small businesses.
Frank started Atticus after several years on the management team of Churchill Downs, heading up the iconic Kentucky company’s local, state, and federal advocacy and public policy initiatives during a period when the company enjoyed notable public affairs success. Prior to Churchill, Frank led the privatization-in-place project for a U.S. Navy weapons and engineering base in Louisville. The project converted the facility and most of its workforce to private sector management and saved a thousand STEM and manufacturing jobs for the region. Frank began his private sector career heading up government affairs and several successful community and regional initiatives as an executive with the Louisville Area Chamber of Commerce. He has served on several nonprofit boards of directors, including the University of Louisville Board of Trustees, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System Foundation, the Southern Growth Policies Board, the West Louisville Boys Choir, and the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
Frank received a B.A. with honors from the University of Louisville, where he was twice elected student body president. He served six years as a naval intelligence officer at sea with Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 123 and Carrier Air Wing Eight aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Abraham Lincoln, and ashore in counterterrorism and battle damage assessment roles and as the head intelligence briefer for a four-star U.S. and NATO commander.
Frank and his family live in Louisville.
