Mike Muir

Mike Muir is Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Assets Technology for Franklin Templeton. Mr. Muir leads the team who is responsible for the firm's software and hardware development across the digital asset landscape.

Mr. Muir has 19 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for enterprise software systems addressing trade order and execution management, portfolio construction and monitoring, performance attribution and risk management, and ETF basket/index management. Mr. Muir also has software design and development experience in document formatting, web, data warehousing, and large-scale data transformations. He joined Franklin Templeton in 2006 as a senior technical consultant.

Mr. Muir has subject matter expertise in general programming concepts, data structures, concurrency and multi-threading, software configuration management, and performance profiling across a wide variety of programming languages and runtimes. In his current role, Mr. Muir studies blockchain protocol and application implementations, contributing to Franklin Templeton's strategies across digital assets of all varieties.