Eric K. Zimmerman

Eric Zimmerman is an investment specialist for Templeton Global Macro. As investment specialist, Mr. Zimmerman is responsible for developing and supporting relationships with Templeton Global Macro clients. Mr. Zimmerman was previously a member of the National Accounts team at Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc., and was responsible for business development and managing relationships with home office gatekeepers and portfolio managers at the firm's largest wirehouse and bank clients.

Mr. Zimmerman brings 28 years of diverse industry experience, directly prior to joining Franklin Templeton in 2016, he was a director on BlackRock's Manager Research Consultant Team focused on advisory platform development. Before that, Mr. Zimmerman was a value equity client portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. He spent the first seven years of his career at DG Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank AG in several different roles including serving as a corporate banking relationship manager in New York and Atlanta.

Mr. Zimmerman holds a B.A. in International Relations and German from Bucknell University, and an M.B.A. in International Finance from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.