Frank Frankovsky, VP, Hardware Design and Supply Chain, Facebook:

Frank Frankovsky rose into fame when we worked as Dell’s director of Data Center Solutions during 2006 to 2009. During that time-span, Frank sold rack-mount servers to search engine and web service companies, seeking to build new and more efficient data centers.

The unit got Dell to be a leading player in server hardware. Later on Dell even admitted that, if they had broken the whole Data Center Solutions into a separate business, they would have been the number three seller of servers in the U.S., reports Information Week.

The crucial turnover in Frank’s life came when he joined as the director of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook in 2009. Facebook was going through an extensive period of expansion and Frank came up with an idea of a cloud server design based on publicly pooled intelligence. Despite Google consistently breathing under the neck, Facebook successfully managed to build a data center on a cloud server design.

In April 2011, Mark Zuckerberg, Frank and other Facebook officials together announced the launch of Open Compute Project where new innovative cloud projects and cloud standards are brought to the open source lime light.

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