Kenneth Frank is a Partner at Banneker Partners and has spent more than 30 years in the technology industry at both large, multinational corporations and privately-backed firms. Mr. Frank most recently served as CEO of Turning Technologies. Prior to that he held multiple portfolio executive roles at Vista Equity Partners including the founding CEO of Kibo Commerce and the COO of Aptean. Mr. Frank was President, Solutions and Marketing and a member of the executive committee (reporting directly to the CEO) at Alcatel-Lucent prior to Vista. In addition, Mr. Frank is currently an Independent Board Member of American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT).
Mr. Frank’s career began at AT&T Bell Laboratories as an MTS and subsequently transitioned to expanding roles at BellSouth Telecommunications and Kleiner-Perkins backed Broadband Office/Masergy. Mr. Frank holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from Emory University (Beta Gamma Sigma). He resides in Dallas, TX with his wife and has two sons and a daughter.