Varkki P. Chacko

Dr. Varkki P.
Chacko is Managing Principal & Chief Investment Officer at Credit Capital Investments LLC.
CCI seeks investment opportunities across the capital structure with a focus on the publicly traded markets in the US and India.
Prior to joining Gartmore, Dr. Chacko spent approximately 16 years on the sell-side, first at Salomon Brothers and then at Goldman Sachs.
While at Goldman Sachs, he was a Managing Director serving in various roles including Co-Head of Global High Yield Research, Head of European and Asian Credit Research and Head of Global Credit Strategy.
He was a top-ranked analyst in the Institutional Investor All-America Fixed Income Research Team from 1994 to 1998 and again in 2000.
The 2000 and 2002 Euro money Credit Research Polls named the teams led by him as top-ranked in Credit Research and in High-Grade and High-Yield Credit Strategy respectively.
He was significantly involved in proprietary credit trading activities both at Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers.
He work in the real time index area has been awarded U.S.
and European patents and is the basis of one of the largest fixed income ETFs, the Ishares $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund.
His work in industry has been awarded eight patents.
Dr. Chacko completed an M.B.A.
in Finance from New York University in 1987, a Ph.D.
in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1982, and a B.E.
(Hons) and M.S.
(Hons) in 1978 from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.