Janessa Pulliam
Janessa Pulliam is a Senior Control Administrator in Advice Oversight and Control at Vanguard in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
After completing two years postsecondary education in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Janessa transitioned to working full-time in a non-profit child care resource and referral agency where she worked for nearly a decade. She eventually returned to school and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Douglass College at Rutgers – New Brunswick. After graduation, she worked as a management consultant at Accenture in the Communications and High Tech sector for three years.
Janessa went back to school at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where she earned her MBA with concentrations in Financial Analysis and Strategy. Business school helped Janessa pivot to financial services where she has worked at Vanguard since 2009 after beginning in the MBA Development Program and supporting their financial advice business in various roles for over a decade.