Frank was Digicel’s first employee in April 1999 when the company set about completing an assessment of the opportunities in the liberalizing telecommunications markets across the Caribbean region, which led to acquiring Digicel’s first licence in the year 2000 in Jamaica.  During his time as Business Development Director for Digicel in the Caribbean region, the company also secured telecommunications licences in Barbados, the Cayman Islands, Aruba, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada and Dominica and well established foundations were set across the rest of the Caribbean.

Prior to joining Digicel, Frank was Personal Assistant to Denis O’Brien from February 1997 and worked across a number of his companies including Communicorp Group, Esat Telecom Group plc and many of Mr. O’Brien’s personal investments in real estate, utilities and communications.  Frank was Company Secretary of Communicorp Group and of Esat Telecom Group plc during which time it listed on the stock exchanges Nasdaq, Easdaq and Iseq.  Frank also worked on successful licence and funding applications in Ireland for 98FM, Special Olympics 2003 World Summer Games, Spin FM, Boxer Ireland and Media Lab Europe.

Before joining Mr. O’Brien, Frank was Programme Manager of the Marketing Development Programme at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business in University College Dublin from July 1992.  Previous to that, Frank completed commercial projects in Ireland for Premier Dairies Group, the Department of Tourism, Mitsubishi Electric and the Telecom Eireann/France Telecom joint venture, Minitel.

Frank holds degrees in Commerce (Banking & Finance), Marketing and Management from University College Dublin.