Mike is the senior vice president and head of Digital Asset Partnership Development for Franklin Templeton. Mike is involved in seeking out businesses in the digital assets ecosystem with whom there may be strategic synergies, engaging in due diligence and looking for potential partnerships across our enterprise.

Mr. Reed has over two decades of experience in the capital markets. Prior to his current role, Mike was an institutional portfolio manager for a decade, and prior to that was a research analyst with Franklin Templeton Fixed Income. During his tenure as an analyst, he worked on mortgage-backed securities analysis and trading. Additionally, Mike worked closely with some of the team's high grade and multi-sector portfolios and on both economic and sector-specific research.

Mike joined Franklin Templeton in 2000. He holds a bachelor of arts with honors from Queen's University at Kingston, Canada.