Frank J. de Raffele

About Frank J. de Raffele

Frank is a New York Times Bestselling author and has had 4 books published with 3 more in production. His most recent book, Business Networking and Sex: Not what you think, which has been translated into Chinese, was an Amazon.com #1 Best Seller in 9 different categories. De Raffele Enterprises, LLC is an organization with several entrepreneurial companies underneath it. All of Frank\'s businesses have to do with Small Business Development, Education & Training and Human Performance. Frank founded his first business at 18 years old. He started two companies while attending college and immediately after graduation he founded his television and video production company in New York City. Frank founded BNI Mid-Hudson Valley in 1995. He has been and Executive Director with BNI for 25+ years. Frank speaks and conducts retreats with BNI regions around the world helping them to create greater success. In the last year Frank has traveled to BNI regions in Japan, Taiwan, China, India, Malaysia, Europe and more. Frank is considered a Master Speaker and speaks professionally throughout the world. He has received many awards and the honor of being named in the Top 40 Speakers of Europe Club and his presentations have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Chinese and Japanese. Frank’s speaking has brought him across the United States and to Canada, India, Kuala Lumpur, Japan, Hong Kong, London, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Romania and the United Kingdom. He has been speaking professionally since 1990 and his client list looks like the Fortune He is known as a dynamic, funny and content driven speaker. He holds a Bachelor\'s Degree ins Speech Communications and Television Production from Syracuse University. He is married to Crystal since 1995 and has two beautiful daughters.

Experience

1. Executive Director

   Dharmakaya Center For Wellbeing

   Mar 2021 — Present · Cragsmoor, NY, US

Education

• Syracuse University

  BS, Speech Communications, Television Production

  1981 — 1985