Frank H. Murray

Frank Hardart Murray (born 1953) is an American business executive. He is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of InterTech Media and Zocle Media. In the 1990s, Murray was the Chairman and CEO of Goodman Manufacturing Company who engineered Goodman's purchase of Amana Corporation from Raytheon and initiated Amana's successful brand-revitalization campaign. Under Murray, Goodman moved up Forbes' list of 500 Biggest Private Companies from #405 to 66. Murray has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an A.B. degree in mathematics and economics from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Born in New York City and raised in Connecticut, Murray came from a family of entrepreneurs. He is named after his maternal grandfather, Frank Hardart, co-founder of Horn & Hardart, the company known for the Automats - the self serve cafeterias popular in Philadelphia and New York. On his father's side, he is the grandson of William J. Murray (New York) and the great grandson of Samuel J. Murray, who revolutionized the manufacturing of playing cards through the United States Playing Card Company. On his grandmother's side he is the great-grandson of John F. Ahearn who was a prominent Tammany Hall leader and served as Manhattan Borough President from 1903-1909. His father, Samuel J. Murray, was a decorated veteran of World War II.

Early in his career, Frank Murray was a partner in the Beacon Group, a managing director of Mergers & Acquisitions at Merrill Lynch and a vice president at Dillon Read. At Dillon Read, he was a key member in the defense team for Unocal Corporation which prevented a takeover-attempt by T. Boone Pickens' Mesa Petroleum in 1985. The case resulted in the Delaware Supreme Court landmark decision Unocal v. Mesa Petroleum.

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