David Mann

David Mann is senior vice president and head of ETF Product & Capital Markets for Franklin Templeton. The Capital Markets team works with both investors and broker-dealers to help ensure Franklin ETFs trade as they were designed. The Product Development and Strategy team manages the global ETF pipeline across both index and active strategies. His responsibilities include working with liquidity providers to foster healthy creation and redemption processes and on-screen markets. He also partners with the Franklin distribution team to discuss ETF trading and structure, index construction, competitive analysis, and industry trends directly with clients.

Mr. Mann has 23 years of experience within the ETF industry. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton in 2016, Mr. Mann spent almost 7 years at BlackRock (formerly Barclays Global Investors) where he held a variety of roles, most recently leading the client facing team within iShares US Capital Markets. Prior to BlackRock, Mr. Mann led the ETF market making business for LaBranche Structured Products of Hong Kong.

Mr. Mann earned an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Pre-Medicine and Mathematics from Columbia University.