Franklin Templeton today announced the appointment of Barbara Ziegler and Tim Quagliarello as Senior Vice President, Client Advisors, US Institutional. In their new roles, they will be responsible for building, growing and managing our partnerships with both existing and prospective institutional clients. Ziegler joined in February and is based in Southern California. Quagliarello joined in March and is based in New York City.

Ziegler and Quagliarello report to Mike Foley, Head of US Institutional, who oversees Franklin Templeton’s US institutional direct sales, consultant relations and relationship management teams and serves as an essential liaison to institutional distribution leaders at the firm’s independent specialist investment managers.

“Barbara and Tim bring a wealth of expertise and experience in helping institutional investors, and we are excited to welcome them to our growing team. Franklin Templeton offers institutional investors an increasingly robust set of investment capabilities, spanning both traditional and alternative asset classes, to better help them achieve their objectives. Barbara and Tim will be instrumental in our efforts to customize and deliver these offerings and provide the exemplary service our clients have come to expect from us,” said Foley.

Ziegler has over 30 years of financial industry experience, most recently serving as an Institutional Relationship Manager at DoubleLine Capital since 2016. Prior to that, she held Marketing Executive and Head of Global Client Service Support roles at Western Asset Management Company, now a specialist investment manager of Franklin Templeton.

Quagliarello has over 14 years of experience in the financial services industry, joining from Pacific Investment Management Company, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President, US Institutional Client Management. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2011, he was with Morgan Stanley.

These appointments follow the addition of Jamie Gordon as Senior Vice President, Consultant Advisor, focused on managing the firm’s relationship with key East Coast consulting firm partners, and John Ivanac as Senior Vice President, Consultant & Client Advisor, focused on connecting institutional consultants and clients with the firm’s alternative investment capabilities, to Foley’s US Institutional team during the past year.

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