Nick Frank founded Frank-Partners in late 2010. It came from his passion for industry and the growing trend that services are essential for the survival of many organisations who face commoditisation of their business. Nick has seen a significant increase in his clients and his partners, Frank-Partners has morphed into 3 different brands.

- Product Service Innovation

- Growth Stages

- Noventum Service Management Consultants

Nick has over 25 years experience as an International Manager in industry with a track record of turning strategy into concrete results in a number of different manufacturing and technology industries. He has build an expertise in developing services businesses within high value manufacturing companies. He now uses this expertise as well as his work with leading researchers in the field, to support his clients increase their enterprise value.

He was General Manager of After Market Sales at Husky Injection Molding SA, where over a 3 year period he transformed a traditional customer support organisation into a proactive services business, providing lifecycle services that supported all aspects of the machines, molds and hot runners.

Previously he held a number of Service Director level positions at Textron Fastening Systems over a 14 year period, where he was a key leader in creating their Services business. He was responsible for starting up the first of Ford Europe’s Fastener Full Service Provider programs. This laid the foundation for a  $30million services business, for which he later led the commercial development.

Prior to working in services, Nick was a Global Product Manager and Electronics Sales Manager with Avdel, a specialist manufacturer of fastening systems.

Nick graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Southampton and started his professional training with Xerox Corporation as a subsystem engineer where he was granted a number of patents and gained his chartered engineering status.  Xerox sponsored Nick to complete an MBA at the Cranfield School of Management, after which he was made Launch manager of a low end copier program.

Core Values

We will apply our 4 core values to each assignment:

• Respect, uncompromising integrity and transparency
• Detailed Goal assessment and re-evaluation
• Measurable and achievable results
• Effective and efficient project management

Partner Organisations

Growth Stages SA: A Luxembourg management consultancy set up by John Pritchard, ex President Europe, GE Automation.

www.growthstages.eu

Business Paradigms: Catalysts for professional development and organisational change, helping managers and teams design business strategies, build customer relationships, acheive performance goals and enhancetheir communication skills and processes.

www.businessparadigms.eu

Noventum Service Management Consultants: Europe's leading management consultancy solely focussed on services development

www.noventum.eu