
Sergey Frank was Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia (1996–1997) and First Deputy Minister (1998), and served as Minister of Transport from March 1998 to February 2004. In October 2004 he became head of Sovcomflot, where he was General Director until September 2019, when he became Chairman of its Board of Directors.
He trained at the Far East Higher Marine Engineering School and the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade.
He was a panellist at Mare Forum's Maritime Transportation of Energy in 2005 and at Shipping China in 2006.