Kate Tekker

Kate Tekker

Kate Tekker Head of Global Total Rewards & HR Operations, Prudential Financial, Inc.


Kate Tekker, Head of Global Total Rewards and HR Operations joined Prudential as the Global Head of Total Rewards on November 11, 2019. In April 2021, Kate took on the leadership of HR Operations as well. Kate reports to Lucien Alziari, is a member of the HR Senior Leadership Team and leads the Health & Benefits, Compensation, and HR Operations CoEs. Kate brings more than twenty years of experience as a total rewards leader. Most recently she was Head of Global Total Rewards for Chubb, which operates in 54 countries and has 32,000 employees. Among her accomplishments, Kate led the total rewards integration of the ACE/Chubb merger in 2016. Prior to her tenure at Chubb, Kate spent 14 years at Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson) advising leading organizations across industries on rewards and people issues. She brings expertise in strategy, design and execution to help organizations optimize their rewards spend and ensure that programs drive the behaviors and performance needed to meet business goals.