Chicago-headquartered asset manager Nuveen has hired a former executive from Fullerton Asset Management to bolster its business in Southeast Asia.

Gracee Teo joined Nuveen Asia Pacific as a vice president and head of Southeast Asia institutional earlier this month, according to a statement.

Based in Singapore, she reports to Hong Kong-based senior managing director and head of APAC and Middle East, global client group, Simon England-Brammer.

Teo has over 15 years of asset management experience, most recently with Fullerton Asset Management where she was a senior vice president of business development, institutional, covering public and private sector names in the ASEAN region. Previously, she held similar roles at Lion Global Investors, HSBC Global Asset Management and ABN AMRO Asset Management.