Larry Chiarello

Larry Chiarello is a Managing Director, Partner, and co-founder of SkyView Investment Advisors, an investment advisory firm he helped establish around 2009–2010. The firm designs and manages customized, multi-asset portfolios — spanning traditional investments, alternative strategies, hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital — for institutions, family offices, and wealth managers, using an open-architecture, research-driven approach. At SkyView, Chiarello specializes in manager research, portfolio and risk management, and asset allocation across both public and private markets.

His career reaches back to the 1980s. Early on, he was a member of the Los Angeles–based High Yield & Convertible Bond Group at Drexel Burnham, the group headed by Michael Milken. He then spent more than 16 years at Soros Fund Management, where he built the firm's performance and risk analytics group, expanded its satellite-manager network to roughly $4 billion, and was part of the team as assets under management grew from under $400 million to over $25 billion.

Before co-founding SkyView, Chiarello held senior risk and research roles at other firms: as a risk manager at BPV Capital he helped grow assets from under $200 million to over $2 billion, and at Riverview Investment Advisors he focused on manager research and helped grow international AUM to more than $2 billion. Across his career he has met with and evaluated hundreds of investment managers.

Public search summaries indicate Chiarello holds an MBA in Finance and Investments from NYU's Stern School of Business and a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Queens College (education not confirmed on SkyView's own bio page). He is described as a frequent speaker and contributor at alternative-asset industry venues and an active community member who devotes time to expanding access to the arts.

• Invests as an institutional/OCIO allocator, not as a direct startup angel: builds diversified, multi-asset portfolios for family offices, institutions, and wealth managers.
• Emphasizes a "research-driven approach" — SkyView's stated philosophy is that "information alone is not knowledge; the only source of knowledge is experience," and it aims to separate valuable insight from information overload.
• Deep specialization in manager due diligence and risk management, especially in hedge funds and alternatives, drawing on a career built around evaluating fund managers.
• Allocates across public and private markets, including private equity and venture capital, via transparent, open-architecture, manager-of-managers structures rather than direct company checks.
• Team-level credibility: SkyView's senior professionals average ~30 years of experience, and the firm has had advisory ties including Nobel laureate Dr. Harry Markowitz.