Living Ratings of Asset Managers 2026

Tara Giuliano is the Chief Marketing Officer of Nuveen and a member of the Executive Management Team. She plays a central role in delivering the firm’s collective investment capabilities to clients around the world. Tara leads a global marketing and communication organization responsible for developing and executing Nuveen’s go-to-market strategy – focused on acquiring, retaining, and expanding client relationships while addressing complex investor needs. Her team is recognized for producing compelling investment stories that differentiate Nuveen in a competitive marketplace. Tara spearheaded Nuveen’s 2025 enterprise brand refresh, anchored by the new tagline “invest like the future is watching.” The campaign elevated Nuveen’s brand by sharpening its purpose-driven narrative and reinforcing the firm’s commitment to reliability, access and foresight.

Before joining Nuveen in 2018, Tara held senior roles at UBS Asset Management as institutional global head of marketing and head of marketing for the Americas. She also served as director of asset management marketing at Morningstar and held marketing leadership roles at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty and Nationwide. In addition to her marketing leadership, Tara is a mental-health champion, advocating for greater awareness of how financial stability and long-term wellbeing intersect with mental health. She has spoken publicly about the impact of personal family loss, using her experience to help reduce stigma and encourage employees and clients to seek support when facing financial or emotional strain

Tara graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Business Administration from The Ohio State University and earned an M.A. in Communications from DePaul University. She serves on the Marketing Steering Committees for the Money Management Institute and the Investment Management Education Alliance and is a board member of the Chicago Children’s Museum.

Tara was recently named both Chicago American Marketing Association (AMA) and The Financial Communications Society (FCS) Marketer of the Year, adding to her track record as an award-winning CMO.

Pinki Mehta is Co-Chief Marketing Officer at AllianceBernstein (AB). In this role, she leads the firm’s global marketing strategy across brand, content, digital, creative, data and analytics, marketing operations, and client experience, supporting AB’s asset management and wealth management businesses. She is focused on creating a modern, integrated marketing organization that strengthens the AB brand, deepens client engagement and drives commercial growth.

With deep experience in marketing and digital transformation, Pinki is passionate about connecting strategy, creativity, technology and data to create more relevant client experiences and measurable business value. Throughout her career, she has championed a user-centric approach to marketing while advancing the capabilities, talent and operating models needed to meet the evolving expectations of clients.

Before joining AB, Pinki led Digital Marketing and Sales Enablement at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, where she transformed online experiences and modernized tools and capabilities to advance client engagement and sales productivity. Prior to that, at Prudential, she built the firm’s first enterprise Digital Center of Excellence and co-led it for a decade. The center supported corporate brand and marketing as well as Prudential’s B2C and B2B businesses, developing digital experiences while introducing greater customer-experience and product-management discipline across the organization.

Pinki holds a Bachelor of Science from Temple University and a graduate degree in Communications and Technology from Columbia University.

Kate is co-Founder and CEO of Living Group, founded in 2004. She has over 20 years of City experience covering investment banking, private client wealth management and hedge fund trading which includes eight years at UBS, latterly sales trading to hedge fund clients. Kate is responsible for Living’s financial services clients and brings extensive, invaluable knowledge of the alternative investment arena. She also oversees Living’s financial control and growth strategy in Europe, Asia and America.