Financial Marketer of the Year Gala 2023 – SOLD OUT

Pinki Mehta is SVP/MD, Global Marketing and Digital Experience. In this role, she’s responsible for developing and executing strategic marketing programs across Alliance Bernstein’s global asset-management business. Pinki leads brand management; integrated creative, content and digital strategy; operations; and events. With deep experience in digital transformation, Pinki is passionate about building user-centric, data-driven experiences at the intersection of marketing, digital, technology, data and user psychology to drive customer satisfaction and commercial value.

Before joining AB, Pinki led Digital Marketing and Sales Enablement at JP Morgan Asset Management, rebuilding online experiences and modernizing internal tools and capabilities to advance sales productivity. While at Prudential, she built that firm’s first enterprise Digital Center of Excellence, co-leading it for a decade. The center supported corporate brand and marketing as well as each of the firm’s B2C/B2B businesses, building websites, mobile applications, and social solutions while introducing customer experience and product-management discipline to raise increase visibility and client engagement.

Pinki has a Bachelor of Science from Temple University and a graduate degree in Communications/Technology from Columbia University. She works in New York and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, Sunil and her pup, Lollie. With her two children attending school abroad, Pinki’s travel enables her to stay connected with family and fulfil a lifelong desire to engage with the world.

Lynn Teo is the Chief Marketing Officer of Northwestern Mutual. Her responsibilities encompass brand strategy, product marketing, field and customer experience marketing, digital marketing, marketing technology, operations, and consumer insights/market research. She is a data-driven and revenue-centric tech sector marketing executive specializing in driving growth for the enterprise through the buildout of modern marketing capabilities.

Ms. Teo joined Northwestern Mutual in September 2022. In her 24 years in industry, she has led digital transformation initiatives in a broad range of industries: advertising, publishing, education, retail, finance, travel, and health.

She is a seasoned international executive who has lived and worked in the US, Europe, and Asia during her career. From 2014 – 2018, Lynn assumed roles as VP Digital Marketing and Head of Marketing (Asia Pacific & Japan) at CA Technologies. From 2018 – 2021, Lynn expanded her scope of responsibilities as VP (CMO) of Global Marketing and Customer Experience at Wolters Kluwer Health. Before joining Northwestern Mutual, Lynn served as the CMO of three lines of business at Thomson Reuters.

Ms. Teo received her Honors BA degree from the National University of Singapore and an MA in Professional Writing (Information and Online/Interaction Design) from Carnegie Mellon University. 

Lynn enjoys international travel, experiencing new cultures and cuisines, and hiking in the National Parks across the US. She lives in New York City and Palm Springs with her partner Michael.

Arielle Gross Samuels is a Managing Director and Blackstone’s Global Head of Marketing. She leads Blackstone’s marketing function, inclusive of brand, digital, video, design and events. 

Prior to joining Blackstone, Arielle worked at Meta (FKA Facebook), serving as the Global Head of ESG Business and previously Business Lead of Global Business Marketing. Prior to Meta, Arielle worked at Deloitte in Engineering Consulting.  

Arielle has served on the boards of the United Nations Foundation Girl Up, the 92NY CEO Council, the Geena Davis Institute, the University of Illinois Alumni Association, and is a Founding Member of Chief. She earned a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.