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Chandra Seethamraju

San Ramon,CA

Summary

Dynamic executive with extensive experience at Franklin Templeton Investments, specializing in strategic planning and talent development. Led a quantitative investment team overseeing assets exceeding $25 billion. Proficient in portfolio management and investment research, building strong relationships with global institutions and implementing innovative investment strategies.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

SVP, Head of Systematic Strategies

Franklin Templeton Investments
San Mateo, CA
06.2015 - Current
  • Seasoned and sophisticated executive with experience in building relationships and raising assets with large global institutions, including pension funds, Sovereign wealth funds, Investment Banks, and insurance conglomerates.
  • Created a quantitative investment team from the ground up to support a systematic strategies platform and business through the retention of existing talent, recruitment, and development of new talent.
  • Assets under management exceeded $25 billion in 2025.
  • Collaborated and directed AI companies within Franklin's Fintech incubator and our own internal AI teams while leveraging the power of their expertise in NLP, Machine Learning and LLMs with a goal of bringing in new data/insights into the investment process.
  • Developed and maintained relationships with large investment banks (structuring desks and trading desks), independent third-party agencies, and custom index-building entities.
  • Successfully led the development of a structured products business targeted at insurance companies, launched multiple fixed index annuities, and registered insurance-linked annuities with assets under management in excess of $4 billion.
  • Restructured the quantitative strategies group through two acquisitions to reduce overhead and improve overall efficiency. Also, helped restructure the broader asset allocation group.

Vice President, Senior Research Analyst

Franklin Templeton Investments, FT Solutions
San Mateo, CA
09.2013 - 05.2015
  • Leveraged quantitative equity experience for research efforts of Global Tactical Asset Allocation group and FT Investment Solutions.
  • Responsible for researching, developing and implementing quantitative country/asset selection models which increased efficacy of investment processes. These models helped manage $2B AUM in client portfolios
  • Directed research efforts of junior team members in various global locations.

Vice President, Senior Research Analyst

Mellon Capital Management
San Francisco, CA
07.2006 - 03.2013
  • Initially hired in active-equity stock selection research group and later moved into broader multi-strategy research group. Responsible for researching, developing and implementing all aspects of quantitative stock selection models.
  • Developed and implemented methodology for enhancing and timing earnings quality factors based on macroeconomic regimes in response to challenging market conditions beginning in 2007.
  • Developed/implemented multi-factor stock selection models employing valuation, market and accounting research-based signals in US, Japan and Australia markets and in global developed markets. This work helped improve existing investment models and supported bringing new products to market.
  • Owned lead role in articulating details of quantitative stock selection models and investment processes in presentations to key clients/potential clients and investment consultants.

Assistant Professor of Accounting

Olin School of Business
Saint Louis, MO
07.2000 - 06.2006
  • Responsible for teaching MBA classes in Financial Accounting.
  • Secured average teaching rating of 9.11 out of 10 across 18 sections taught.
  • Mentored/supervised junior faculty on their projects and supervised junior faculty for many years on coauthored papers/projects.

Education

Ph.D - Bus. Administration (Accounting

NYU Stern School of Business
New York, NY

MBA - Finance

Drexel University

Chartered Accountant -

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Bachelor of Commerce -

Osmania University
India, Hyderabad, India

Skills

  • Senior executive responsible for managing quant strategies line of business
  • Investment team and board presentation skills
  • Strategic planning, team building, and talent development
  • Portfolio management, investment research, modeling, and platform building for quantitative factor-based investment strategies
  • Member of the Investment Strategy and Research Committee for Asset Allocation

Accomplishments

  • Won the Lipper award as PM of a Global equity fund for best fund in its category (over a 3,5 and 10 year period) for three years in a row - 2022, 2023 and 2024.
  • Series 3 certification
  • FASB Faculty program, 2001.
  • Nichols Fellowship at NYU Stern, 1999.
  • Certificate of merit for securing the 39th Rank in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India exam (out of approximately 10,000 students).

Personal Information

Title: Senior Investment Executive

Timeline

SVP, Head of Systematic Strategies

Franklin Templeton Investments
06.2015 - Current

Vice President, Senior Research Analyst

Franklin Templeton Investments, FT Solutions
09.2013 - 05.2015

Vice President, Senior Research Analyst

Mellon Capital Management
07.2006 - 03.2013

Assistant Professor of Accounting

Olin School of Business
07.2000 - 06.2006

Ph.D - Bus. Administration (Accounting

NYU Stern School of Business

MBA - Finance

Drexel University

Chartered Accountant -

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Bachelor of Commerce -

Osmania University

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