Christopher Franck

Managing Director, MAC3 Impact Philanthropies

Biography

Christopher Louis FRANCK
B.S. Business Administration ’90 (Georgetown), Advanced IEP Program ’03 (INSEAD)

Christopher Franck is Managing Director at Aquilus Pte Ltd and MAC3 Impact Philanthropies, two entities supporting the investment activities and impact investments of a global industrial family.

As a giving and impact entity, MAC3 reviews evidence to select approaches & initiatives that seek maximum long-term societal return for the philanthropic dollar spent whilst being sustainable. We support organizations in Early childhood, Health & Education (which we refer to as ‘EHE’); as well as the environment and the oceans (which we refer to as ‘Big Blue’). MAC3 has been involved with projects and communities in India, Cambodia, China, Singapore and Indonesia.

To amplify its impact, MAC3 is active in a few selected collaborative philanthropic platforms through which we strive to meaningfully participate in social and environmental programs that spur organizations to roll-out proven approaches driving long-lasting catalytic system changes.

Furthermore, MAC3 believes in the power of impactful storytelling to raise awareness. Powerful imagery shapes seeing into believing. MAC3 thus provides catalytic support to world leading and award-winning content creators, influencers and scientists whose strong visual messages, through repeated layering, compel sustainable behavior changes.

Born in Zurich, Christopher holds a 1990 B.S. in Business Administration from the Georgetown McDonough School of Business. In 2003, he completed the INSEAD Advanced IEP Program in Beijing.

An entrepreneur and business executive, Christopher has lived in Asia for the past twenty-five years. By 2017 he spent the last decade in the FMCG Beauty Personal Care industry where he gained an extensive experience, starting as an entrepreneur and then growing, through multiple rounds of corporate M&A, into the management and oversight of global MNC Supply Chain and Procurement Operations.

Christopher serves on the Board of the Yayasan Bali Purnati. Independently he also serves as a Protector and Advisor to two foundations. Christopher and his wife Bernice live in Singapore and raise three boys.

Regional Focus

Oceania, Southeast Asia