George Chacko is a member of Convexity Wealth Management, LLC. His prior early commercial experience includes time at Accenture and Prudential Investments, and more recently he was a managing director heading fixed income sales and trading at State Street Bank; a managing director heading pension asset management at IFL; the chief investment officer for Auda Alternative Investments; and a partner at HNC Advisors AG from 2010 to 2024. He has also co-founded financial services businesses and subsequently sold them to financial institutions.
 
George has co-authored several books on financial topics ranging from financial instruments to the global economic system and has published papers on varying topics in finance and economics at the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and other publications.
 
His research interests are wide-ranging but have generally been in the areas of capital markets (especially the microstructure of financial markets), financial security design, the management of financial institutions ranging from banks and insurance companies to public and private funds (hedge, private equity, real estate, pension etc.), and the interplay between financial markets, financial securities, and financial institutions. 
 
He has a BS from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and an MA and PhD from Harvard University in Business Economics.
 
In addition to his commercial activities George is Associate Professor of Finance and currently teaches classes in Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions at Santa Clara University. He has been at Santa Clara University in the Finance department since 2006 and has taught courses in Investments, Capital Markets, and Financial Derivatives in the past. He has served as Director of the MS in Finance, Faculty Director of Graduate Programs, Finance Department Chair, Associate Dean, and Acting Dean. His past academic experience was entirely at Harvard Business School where he served as a professor for nine years in the Finance department.