Career
From 1981 to 1985, he served as president of the Paramount Television Group of Paramount Pictures. At Disney, Frank was part of the leadership team alongside Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, but departed shortly after Katzenberg departed to form DreamWorks SKG. Frank"s son Darryl is currently co-President of DreamWorks Television.
In early 1994, Frank spearheaded the “Information Superhighway Summit,” a conference that drew many of the most influential executives in the media world — including then-Federal Communication Commission chairman Reed Hundt, as well as Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Bill Gates, Robert Iger, Robert L. Johnson, Quincy Jones, Jeffrey Katzenberg, John Malone and Rupert Murdoch — to hear keynote speaker Vice President First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore discuss the expanding 500-television-channel universe and new technologies such as the internet. In April 2003, Frank founded Integrated Entertainment Partners (IEP).
In 2004, Rich was named Chairman of the Board, The Firm, when IEP was merged into the high-profile management company.
With clients ranging from Cameron Diaz, Martin Scorsese, to Snoop Dogg and Korn, The Firm was launched in 1997 by Jeff Kwatinetz. In 2007, the Television Academy awarded Frank the Syd Cassyd Founders Award. The Award has been bestowed only seven times in the history of the Academy.
Frank currently owns Frank Family Vineyards, a Napa Valley winery with four estate vineyards, and sits on the boards of eco-friendly goods firm TerraCycle and mobile marketing and advertising venture The Hyperfactory.
