Paul Frankenberg
President, C.E.O. & Principal
Paul Frankenberg is President, C.E.O. and Co-Founder of Kraft Search Associates, a nationally recognized Top 25 Healthcare Executive Search Firm specializing in the recruitment of high-value Executive Leadership throughout the Healthcare Industry.
Paul has completed more than 225 Corporate Executive, Senior Management and Board of Director search assignments during his twelve year career. Paul and the healthcare executive search firm team members are known for search process thoroughness in conducting a highly selective and well executed search process.
Fortune 500, Fortune 100 and Fortune 25 businesses, mid-cap growth companies, Private Equity and Leverage Buyout firms and related portfolio companies, turnaround and restructuring firms and entrepreneurial Venture-Capital start-ups repeatedly engage Paul for board, corporate, divisional, senior and executive management search assignments across most major functional areas. Healthcare executive search firm clients operate within the following healthcare segments:
- Specialized Healthcare Services
- Venture Capital, Private Equity & Leverage Buyout Investment Firms
- Turnaround & Corporate Restructuring Organizations
- Hospital Vendors and Outsourced Solution Providers
- Providers – Hospitals, Health Systems & IDNs
- Medical Technology & Device
- Insurance & Managed Care
- Financial Services
Modern Healthcare magazine recently recognized Kraft Search Associates as one of the Top 25 Healthcare Executive Search Firms in the USA. Kraft Search is 1 of only 5 healthcare executive search firms recognized in the southeastern US and the only healthcare executive search firm recognized throughout TN. Additionally, Kraft Search is leading the industry in reporting search quality metrics and long-term outcomes.
Paul earned his undergraduate degree from The University of Tennessee and his MBA from Vanderbilt University. Paul began his search career with a top ten executive search firm in Atlanta, GA. He serves on the board of the American Heart Association and Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management Alumni Board and is one of the Founding Officers for Owen's Healthcare Alumni Board. Paul is also an active volunteer with several other community and healthcare industry-related organizations.
Paul is a published writer and is often an invited guest speaker and panelist on leadership, executive development, entrepreneurship and recruiting industry topics.
Paul and his wife, Beth, reside in Nashville, TN.
555 Great Circle Road, Suite 200, Nashville, Tennessee 37228
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President, C.E.O. & Principal
Kraft Search Associates, LLC
Suite 200
555 Great Circle Road
Nashville, TN 37228
Office: 615-782-4276
Paul@KraftSearch.com
A Personal Note...
Retained executive search is the best business for me. The leaders and executives I meet possess a real and deep altruistic emotion to their business in addition to the innate ability to understand the highly dynamic, complex and evolving industry, which is healthcare. In no other business does the business leader and team require such breadth and depth of business acumen, communication and technical knowledge. My passion is centered on assisting and leading the recruitment efforts for our healthcare clients.
President & Founder
Kraft Search Associates
Featured Article
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International Health Care Trade Mission
Sept. 7-12, 2008
Paul Frankenberg will join a group of senior health care executives from across the United States for a week long trade mission to Sweden and Germany to meet with top industry executives, health care officials, government leaders and others who play key roles in the health care systems of those nations and the broader European Union.
