Francis Stanton "Frank" Blake (born 30, July 1949 in Boston) is the chairman and CEO of The Home Depot. He was appointed to this position in January 2007. Prior to this he worked for the U. S. Department of Energy and General Electric.

Education

Blake received his bachelors degree from Harvard in 1971. He then received his JD from the Columbia Law School in 1976.

Legal career

From 1971-1973 Blake was a legislative assistant to the joint committee on Social Welfare of the Massachusetts legislature. He was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1978. He served as a law clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg and then to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

From 1991-1995 he was the general counsel for General Electric.

Family

In 1977 Blake married Anne McChristian. They have two children. In 2005 he remarried Liz Lanier (Blake) who works as general counsel Habitat for Humanity International

Business career

Frank Blake joined The Home Depot in 2002 as executive vice president, Business Development and Corporate Operations. His responsibilities include real estate, store construction and maintenance, credit services, strategic business development, special orders and service improvement, call centers and Installation Services Business.

Frank previously served as Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), a role similar to that of chief operating officer in the private sector. There, he was a leader in departmental policy decisions and managed DOE's annual $19 billion budget. Prior to that, Frank served in a variety of executive roles at General Electric. As senior vice president, Corporate Business Development, he led all business development efforts, including worldwide mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and identification of strategic growth opportunities. As GE Power Systems head of business development, he played a key role in expanding that business into new technology and global marketplaces. He also held the position of general counsel at GE Power Systems.

Frank's public sector experience also includes having served as general counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), deputy counsel to Vice President George Bush, and law clerk to Justice Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.

As of April 2004, Frank was elected to serve on the board of directors for Southern Company, a premier super-regional energy company based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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