Churchill Franklin co-founded Acadian Asset Management LLC in 1986. Acadian is a $100 billion in assets under management quantitative institutional asset management firm with offices in Boston, London, Sydney, Singapore and Tokyo. He assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2013. In December 2017, he became Chairman, stepped down as Chairman in March 2020 and retired.
A graduate of Middlebury College, Churchill is an Emeritus Trustee of Middlebury, having joined the Board of Trustees in 1989. He served as an active board member from 1989 until 2004 as a Charter Trustee, and Chair of the Board from 2000 until 2004. After a mandatory year off, he became an Emeritus Trustee for life. He was and is still a member of the investment committee for the College’s $1 billion endowment. In May 2008, he received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Middlebury College.
Churchill also sits on the board of the Boston Advisory Board of the Posse Foundation, sits on the Board for the Whitehead Institute and serves on the investment committee for the Whitehead Institute’s $600 million endowment. In June 2018, he stepped down as the volunteer President of the Board of the Concord Museum in Concord, Massachusetts, having served in that role for 6 years.
Before joining Acadian, Churchill was the Assistant Treasurer of Thermo Electron Corporation (now Thermo Fisher Scientific), a Fortune 500 company, where he managed all aspects of the treasury function. He was previously a commercial loan officer at Bank of Boston (now Bank of America).