Frank Jaehnert is the former president and CEO of Brady Corp. (NYSE: BRC), an international manufacturer of identification solutions, serving from 2003 until 2013. Before that he served as its chief financial officer and as a divisional president. Prior to joining Brady in 1995, he held various financial positions in Germany and the United States at Robert Bosch, a multinational engineering and electronics company. He currently serves on the boards of Nordson Corp. (NASDAQ: NDSN), Itron (NASDAQ: ITRI), National Material L.P., and the NACD Chicago Chapter.

Jaehnert is a certified director and a board governance fellow by the NACD and a Securities and Exchange Commission - designated audit-committee financial expert. He was recognized as a 2020 NACD Directorship 100 honoree , which each year recognizes the 100 most influential leaders in the boardroom. He was a regional winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year program in 2008 and has served as a regional, national, and world judge of the program for many years. Jaehnert is a frequent panelist and moderator on topics such as mergers and acquisitions, audit-committee and corporate-governance matters, internal-audit issues, and corporate strategy.

He has received the equivalent of a Master of Business Administration from the University of Stuttgart in Germany.