Frank Hanna III
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Frank Hanna III

American businessman and Catholic philanthropist

Frank J. Hanna III is an American entrepreneur, merchant banker and philanthropist. He was one of three entrepreneurs profiled in the Acton Institute and PBS documentary film The Call of the Entrepreneur.2

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Born 1960.1

About

Hanna has been described as "one of the leading Catholic philanthropists in the USA."

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of Georgia School of Law3
  • Date not recordedTerry College of Business3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Georgia3

Hanna was a corporate attorney with Troutman Sanders, a multi city law firm headquartered in Atlanta. Since 2006, he has served as CEO of an investment firm, Hanna Capital, LLC.

Hanna received his BBA from the University of Georgia where he was a Foundation Fellow and a Truman Scholar. He subsequently received his JD from the University of Georgia School of Law. Hanna and his younger brother David devised a methodology for the valuation of loan portfolios. The brothers founded an investment firm to employ this methodology, which they later sold to a private equity firm.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.5

Philanthropy

Philanthropic

In recognition of his decades of sustained public service in education and other fields, Hanna received the Philanthropy Roundtable's William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership "for his national leadership in K-12 education reform." He was also awarded the David R. Jones Award for Philanthropic Leadership by The Fund for American Studies.

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Awards

  • Date not recordedKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great6