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Jennifer Ball Is Teaching a 76-Year-Old Firm to Tell One Clear Story
Franklin Templeton acquired new capabilities faster than the market could absorb its new identity. Its global CMO built a listening system, a flexible narrative, and a rule worth stealing: relevance requires restraint.
Austin Trombley
Austin Trombley is the founder and CEO of Satschel, Inc., the Whitefish, Montana parent company behind Liquidity.io (a regulated tokenized trading platform), Simplici (KYC/AML onboarding and compliance), and ARQ Securities. A software engineer turned fintech executive, he co-founded the machine-learning hedge fund Random Forest Capital, which Franklin Templeton acquired roughly 15 months in, then served as VP of Blockchain & AI at Franklin Templeton and EVP at the payments company SpotOn before building Satschel's stack for bringing private credit and private equity onto public blockchains.