Joe Frask
Group Leader and Mentor | Hartford, Connecticut
Joe has over 30 years of senior leadership experience and a demonstrated history of driving top-line growth and improving bottom-line performance through business innovation, productivity improvement, cost reduction and operational optimization. Joe’s expertise includes strategic and tactical planning, service delivery, mergers and acquisitions, process effectiveness, change management and organizational design. Joe is also passionate about building high performance teams with a focus on colleague engagement and talent development.
As Executive Vice President, US Eastern Region for Otis Elevator Company, Joe provided strategic direction and operational oversight for five regional business units with over 3100 employees and annual revenues exceeding $1.3 billion. Over the course of his tenure, Joe grew revenue by 558% (from $240M to $1.34B), increased profitability by 680%, and acquired and integrated over twelve companies. Joe was also committed to growing the people around him and is proud to have personally developed and promoted fifteen executives and over one hundred managers while consistently reducing voluntary attrition across his business units.
In addition to being a member of the Otis Americas Executive Board, Joe was also the recipient of seven Otis Excellence Awards and the 2019 Otis Worldwide Financial Performance Award.
Previously, as Area Vice President & Vice President Marketing, Joe provided strategic direction and operations management for the Atlantic Coast area—a $450M business unit with 1600 employees spread over eight regions—and was a member of Otis World Headquarters Marketing Team. Other positions at Otis included Regional General Manager- New England Region and District Manager.
Joe is now dedicated to helping other business leaders succeed, and his coaching and mentoring style focuses on helping leaders enhance their self-awareness and maximize their potential.