Andrew Crawford

Vice President
Franklin Templeton Investments
Andrew currently leads Franklin Templeton’s digital asset initiatives in Asia, Europe,and the Middle East. He is on the Advisory Board of the Securities and Futures Commission of HK and an adviser on digital assets to the Presidents of the Philippines and South Korea. He has over 28 years’ experience in financial services in executive roles:
• Head of Distribution, Credit Suisse Asset Management (Asia)
• Head of Absolute Return Strategies Sales, Deutsche Asset Management
• Head of Asia, Tiedemann Investment Group
• Founder & Managing Director of Shadforth Financial Group in 1996, that was acquired by IOOF in 2014 for $650 million with client assets under advice of $16 billion
• Graduate Associate at Citibank N.A.
• Teaching Assistant at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania
Advisory Board.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning from the University of Tasmania and undertook a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently undertaking a Master of Financial Planning at Victoria University.