Mally Chakola is a disciplined, tenacious attorney and entrepreneur with a track record of employing vision and judgment to create actionable plans amid complex challenges. She has practiced corporate law for nearly 20 years, in parallel with owning and operating multiple businesses. Mally attended New York University (NYU) earning a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, cumme laude, and received a Juris Doctor from Pace Law School. A member of the bars of both New York State and Connecticut, she began her career practicing mergers and acquisitions in New York City.
Some of the most fulfilling highlights of Mally’s career have been:
- Single-handedly procuring $100 million in capital raises and financings as a deal maker for her sphere of companies, leading to doubled enterprise growth and the creation of over 100 American jobs.
- Founding a luxury, fast moving consumer goods brand that launched in the prestigious Fred Segal with direct-to-consumer, wholesale, and retail sales and garnering over 200+ million media impressions from Success magazine to Harper’s Bazaar and HGTV.
- Creating the “Beauty Cottage” on Abbott Kinney (dubbed at the time “the Coolest Block in America” according to GQ magazine) in Venice, California, where she built an experiential retail space to elevate women's self-care by nurturing their well-being and business skills.
- Establishing Mally Chakola LLC in 2024, a transformational consulting and education company by which Mally works to support growth mindset individuals and organizations seeking to turn their goals into reality.
She serves as a director and committee member of numerous nonprofits in support of education, the environment, the arts, and DEIB.
Mally plays the Celtic harp, studied Mohiniyattam Indian Folk dance, and was a certified ballerina (The Cecchetti Council of America). In her free time, she enjoys writing and adventuring with her daughter, Fleur and husband, Dean Jackson.
