Lesley Mann is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at GBU Financial Life. As CMO, Lesley is responsible for developing and implementing GBU Financial Life’s marketing, product, and distribution capabilities. She champions the GBU mission to provide superior portfolio products and services to grow the member base while enhancing their quality of life.
Lesley brings over 25 years of financial services experience with a focus on Insurance & Annuity marketing and distribution. Prior to Joining GBU, Lesley served as the CMO and Head of Distribution for Knighthead Annuity & Life, where she was a founding leader who drove the growth of the company to over $2 Billion in assets under management. Before Knighthead Annuity, Lesley spent 20 years with Prudential Financial in many capacities. Her most recent role was the SVP, Relationship Management for Prudential’s annuity business, where she was responsible for the management, business development, sales, and marketing for the firm’s 300 institutional clients. In that role, she grew sales from just under $10 billion a year to over $21 Billion, becoming the largest distributor of annuities in the industry.
As a senior executive, Lesley’s passion is around growing, developing, and evolving businesses while leveraging the strengths that already exist in the company. She works to understand the culture, the business framework, and people, which has shaped her determination to build high performance and successful organizations. Lesley holds a B.A. In Economics & Political Science from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.