Ted Smith serves as the Chief Communications Officer at Prudential Financial since November 2023 and holds the position of Vice President and Global Head of Communications at PGIM since January 2018. Prior experience includes serving as Vice President of Asset Management Communications at Dukas Linden Public Relations from 2013 to 2018, and roles at Miller Tabak Roberts Securities, LLC from 2007 to 2013 in FICC Capital Markets, MF Global in Financial and Commodity Futures Trading from 2006 to 2007, and as an Associate at DWS Group from 2004 to 2006. Ted Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Gettysburg College, graduating in 2004, and attended The Pingry School from 1996 to 2000.