Mark Sarkis Boyadjian

Mr. Mark S.
Boyadjian, CFA, is Senior Vice President & Director of Floating Rate Debt Group at Franklin Advisers, Inc. He was most recently responsible for Franklin Templeton Investments' International Local Asset Management Groups in India and Korea, as well as the Global Investment Risk Management and the Global Investment Performance departments.
Since joining Franklin Templeton Investments in 1998, Mr. Boyadjian has held a variety of positions.
Between 1999 and 2002, he was Chief Administrative Officer for the Portfolio Management Group where he was responsible for managing the financial, legal, regulatory, and technological requirements for the enterprises' investment management groups.
Concurrently, he was the Director of Global Portfolio Services with responsibility for introducing and managing enterprise-wide investment risk and portfolio analytics solutions.
During the nine year period prior to joining Franklin Templeton Investments, he was a Principal and Fixed Income Portfolio manager at Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Inc. Mr. Boyadjian holds a B.A.
from the University of California at Berkeley.
He is a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder.