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Re-joined in 2000
Sands Capital (2004 - 2008)
Arlington, VA | President, Director of Research
Sands Capital (2000 - 2004)
Arlington, VA | Managing Director, Director of Research, Sr. Portfolio Manager
Fayez Sarofim & Co. (1994 - 2000)
Houston, TX | Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager, Principal
Sands Capital (1992)
Arlington, VA | Assistant to the President
Walker & Dunlop (1989 - 1991)
Washington, DC | Commercial Real Estate Leasing and Sales
University of Virginia (1994)
MBA | Darden School
Johns Hopkins University (1993)
MS | Real Estate Finance & Development
Washington & Lee University (1989)
BA | Economics
Frank is the chief investment officer and chief executive officer of Sands Capital, an institutional investment management firm focused on investing in high-quality, innovative, growth businesses globally. Frank helped his father to create Sands Capital in 1992 and left later that year to attend business school. After working for six years at Fayez Sarofim & Co., an institutional investment management firm in Houston, Frank returned to Sands Capital in 2000 as the director of research and co-portfolio manager of Select Growth, the firm’s only strategy at that time. He became president in 2004, and he became the CIO and CEO in 2008.
During Frank’s tenure with the firm, assets under management have grown from approximately $900 million to over $50 billion. Over the past 20 years, the firm has broadened and deepened its research and investment capabilities by globalizing its research platform and expanding its expertise in key innovative growth segments of the market. With a keen eye on preserving the firm’s culture, Frank has expanded the investment team from five professionals in 2000 to 62 today. Additionally, he has led the further development of Select Growth and the creation and development of the firm’s other flagship strategies—Global Growth, Emerging Markets Growth, Global Leaders, International Growth, and Technology Innovators as well as several public equity specialty strategies. Working with many other talented people at the firm, Frank founded Sands Capital Ventures, a venture capital and private equity capability, which uses Sands Capital’s public equity investment approach to find and invest in early-stage, innovative, private growth businesses. These strategies now include Global Innovation, which focuses on rapidly scaling, established technology-enabled private businesses; Pulse, which focuses on innovative private life science businesses; and Global Ventures, which focuses on early-stage technology businesses. Sands Capital remains rooted in the same mission, philosophy, and six investment criteria that have been in place since the firm’s founding.
Frank earned a BA from Washington & Lee University, an MS from Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia. He is a CFA® charterholder. He serves as the chair of the Darden School Foundation.
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