Founder Profile
Frank A. Shattuck
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Frank A. Shattuck held an incredibly rigorous, deeply strategic background in advanced corporate finance and complex commercial distribution. Operating as a fiercely respected local businessman and highly astute financial manager in Wisconsin, this intense foundation in aggressive capital deployment provided the exact commercial mastery required to successfully co-pilot the massive Kimberly-Clark enterprise.
Founding Story
Frank A. Shattuck was a fiercely brilliant American commercial strategist, highly powerful corporate executive, and the profoundly influential co-founder fundamentally responsible for driving the aggressive early sales dominance of the massive Kimberly-Clark empire. Operating alongside John A. Kimberly and the other core founders in 1872, Shattuck aggressively took command of the nascent company's complex financial architecture and massive distribution networks. By relentlessly securing incredibly lucrative commercial contracts across the rapidly expanding American Midwest, he fiercely ensured the massive paper mills operated at absolute maximum capacity. His incredibly rigorous corporate leadership completely guaranteed the foundational stability of the enterprise, permanently cementing his legacy as a massive driving force behind the early survival and ultimate global dominance of Kimberly-Clark.