Franklin Templeton Digital Assets

The CEO of a $1.7 trillion firm made us a promise in Paris. Then she moved her calendar to keep it. Well , all marketing aside, this is the real stuff you need to see from a leader! In June, on our main stage at the Louvre in Paris, Jenny Johnson told us: "If you do an event in Abu Dhabi, I will come again." We took it as advice. Six months and one Louvre later, she is the first speaker we are announcing for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. Paris was a full day for her. She announced a tokenisation partnership with MoonPay from our stage, went live on Bloomberg Crypto with Adam Back from inside the museum, and left us a one line review: "Proof of Talk is an incredibly efficient use of time." Abu Dhabi Finance Week opens days after we close, so the efficient plan was one trip. She is making two. In for a day with us, out again, back for ADFW. Her calendar objected. She overruled it! Franklin Templeton @FranklnTempletn manages around $1.7 trillion. Time is still the one asset with no secondary market, and she is spending a day of it keeping her word. Nobody would have held a CEO of her stature to one sentence said in Paris. She held herself to it. That is the example we want our own team to see. Her bio is below and it is a serious one. What we will remember is simpler: she said she would come, and she is coming. Integrity and kindness, in a world that could use more of both. YOLO, but make it fiduciary. About Jenny Johnson - President and CEO of Franklin Templeton, CEO since February 2020 More than 35 years at the firm, with leadership roles in every major division, including Chief Operating Officer, Co-President and Chief Information Officer Led the acquisitions of Legg Mason, Putnam Investments, Lexington Partners and Alcentra - Franklin's OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, known as BENJI, was the first US-registered mutual fund to record share ownership on a public blockchain Director of Thermo Fisher Scientific, and a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore - Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women four years running, and a 2026 CNBC Changemaker - Many of the firms joining us in December are deciding whether to build or buy their way into what comes next. She has done both, at scale. Worth finding in Abu Dhabi. Speaker 1 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · 3 and 4 December 2026 Request your access: link in the first comment.