Board of Directors

Frank L. Jaksch Jr. - Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, CEO and President

Frank Jaksch is a co-founder of ChromaDex, Inc™. With more than 10 years of general management, sales, marketing, and business development experience, Frank provides strategic, operations, and marketing leadership to ChromaDex, Inc™.

He is responsible for the vision and leadership of ChromaDex´s operations, with key focus on the sales and marketing efforts.  Frank has management experience in analytical chemistry, diagnostics, sales and marketing, and general management experience with global industry leaders such as ICN Pharmaceutical and Phenomenex.

Jaksch provides the overall vision and leadership to the group, as well as significant technical, sales and marketing experience in scientific products, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical markets.  Most recently, he managed the international subsidiary and international business development divisions at Phenomenex, a $100 million global business representing 30% of the global market for analytical chemistry supplies.

Jaksch was focused on developing new international subsidiaries for Phenomenex. Between 1993 and 1999 Frank setup sales and marketing offices Australia, England, Germany and New Zealand.  He returned to the US from New Zealand in July 1999 and started ChromaDex™ in September 1999.

Jaksch has a BS in Chemistry and Biology, from Valparaiso University.