Chiappinelli is a vice president at HarbourVest. He focuses on coordinating, monitoring, and enhancing relationships with new and existing investors and consultants. He previously served as product specialist and manager of sales at Batterymarch Financial Management and as director of consultant relations and a manager of the RFP team at GE Asset Management in Stamford, Connecticut and Tokyo. He has also held positions at Institutional Investor Conferences, the Consulate General of Japan in New York, and as a teacher in the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program. At Hamilton, Chiappinelli majored in public policy and minored in Asia Studies. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. In 2005 he earned his master's degree in investment management from Boston University.