George Swankie

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT GEORGE SWANKIE

I am currently a Relationship Manager in the Alternatives Client Services team at BlackRock. This team are responsible for the shareholder servicing of BlackRock\'s privately offered alternative products. These include hedge funds, fund of hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure, special opportunity and real estate funds. The team also acts as the main point of contact for clients as well as internal business teams regarding onboarding, fund trades and various other operations in alternatives funds. Prior to joining the Alternatives Client Services team, I was a member of the Asset Servicing team within BlackRock\'s Global Investment Operations Group. This team are responsible for actively managed risk and exposure for BlackRock by ensuring that position data are accurate for critical processes including investment management, analytics, compliance and regulation. I have attained a BSc (Hons) with First Class Honours and a MSc with Distinction from Strathclyde Business School. During my time at university, my primary research interest was in the field of artificial intelligence and its impact on the evaluation of banking risk. To date, my research has been read over times and has been cited in the \'Journal of Actual Problems of Economics and Law\', the \'Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity\', the ‘Journal of Management Systems in Production Engineering’, the ‘Annals of Data Science’, at the ‘Conference on Management, Business, Innovation, Education and Social Science’, at the ‘2022 International Conference on Business Analytics for Technology and Security’ and at the ‘2022 International Conference of Business Analytics for Technology and Security (ICBATS)’. My proclivity for learning combined with my desire to further develop my career in investment management has driven me to pursue the CFA certification. I successfully passed the CFA Level I and CFA Level II exams on my first attempt.