Entrepreneur, supporter of education, healthcare, business, community and church leader are all terms that could easily describe Frank Stella. He is founder and chairman and CEO of The F.D. Stella Products Company, Detroit, designers and distributors of food service and dining equipment. The company was founded in 1946, and today leads a network of affiliates serving markets in Michigan and throughout the U.S. Frank is also chairman and CEO of Stella International, New York, a consulting, joint venture and importing firm, and a member of the Board of Directors of Metropolitan Realty Corp. An alumnus of the University of Detroit College of Commerce and Finance, Frank has devoted his life to the betterment of others. His biography reads like a encyclopedia of achievements, awards and honors earned in serving the greater good.

   Frank has served as a board member for many medical and educational institutions including the University of Detroit/Mercy, Wayne Community College Foundation, Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital, Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, Detroit Round Table, Detroit Urban League, Rehabilitation Institute Center for Independent Living, vice chairman of Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan and vice chairman of Grace Hospital of Detroit.

   Frank has held seats on the boards of numerous civic, business and educational organizations, and received numerous awards and honors for his commitment and dedication. His political achievements include numerous chairs within the National Republican Committee, Michigan Finance Republican Committee, National Republican Heritage Groups Council; and national, state and local Republican Committees as well as being an a pointee of four Presidents, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush, as well as Governors William Milliken, James J. Blanchard and John M. Engler, and Mayor Coleman A. Young.

   Business organizations benefiting from Frank’s involvement include the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, chairman of Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce, Michigan Chamber of Commerce, New Detroit, Inc., Economic Alliance for Michigan, The Economic Growth Corporation, Economic Club of Detroit, chairman of City of Detroit Income Tax Board of Review, National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, chairman of The National Italian American Foundation of Washington, D.C., chairman of Save Orchestra Hall and board member and vice chairman of Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, and Michigan Opera Theatre.

   He was decorated by the government of Italy three times and received its highest decoration "Grande Ufficiale", and was awarded a doctorate in business by the Gentium Pacem University in Rome and Cleary College, was awarded the Seal of the University of Bologna, member of the Board of Advisors of John Hopkins University Bologna Center, and Board Gregorian University of Rome Foundation. Selected by Detroit, Michigan as Michigander of the year 1997.

   He was drafted as a private in World War II, and was honorably discharged as a Major in the Army Air Force.

   He is listed in Who’s Who in America the World and in the Midwest, Men of Achievements, Community Leaders of America and the Michigan Social Register.

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