Freda Zietlow

Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager, Fiduciary Trust International; Independent Director, Bank of the Orient

Freda Lam Zietlow is an international investment, banking, and wealth management executive with over twenty years of institutional investment and private wealth management experience. She is currently managing director and senior portfolio manager of Fiduciary Trust International, the wealth management unit of Franklin Templeton (NYSE:BEN). Zietlow brings an uncommon breadth of expertise across portfolio management, public and private securities, real estate, and cross-border wealth planning strategies. She is a sought-after advisor for private families, endowments, and foundations. Zietlow previously held leadership positions at J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. , Fremont Group, Bingham Osborn & Scarborough, and founded Peridot Capital Partners, an investment advisory firm serving clients in the US and Europe. Zietlow is an advocate of environmental, social, and governance priorities and women corporate leadership. She is an experienced director and a US Securities and Exchange Commission–qualified financial expert with audit, risk and compliance, and other board committee experience. Zietlow has served on many corporate and nonprofit boards as an independent director and committee chair in the last decade. She has guided strategic transformation for growing organizations and companies that are going through rapid technological, regulatory, and market changes. Zietlow is currently an independent director and the audit committee chair of Bank of the Orient and serves on the boards of Give2Asia and the King Baudouin Foundation United States. Zietlow is an active member of the National Association of Corporate Directors(NACD) and the Women Corporate Directors Foundation and serves on the leadership committee of How Women Lead. She is a chartered financial analyst and holds NACD Directorship Certification. Zietlow earned a master of business administration from the Wharton School, a master of science in real estate from Columbia University, and a bachelor of arts in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2023, Zietlow was recognized as a top 50 Women Leaders in San Francisco by Women We Admire.