Living in Alaska
Jan 08, 2026
Chad Rixse
Living in Alaska

Chad was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1989, to Mel and Kellie Rixse, where he grew up until graduating from South Anchorage High School in 2007. After high school, Chad spent 11 years in Seattle, Washington, where he graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish before entering the financial services industry as a Financial Advisor in the fall of 2014. Chad later returned to Alaska in September 2018 for a 5-year stint before moving to Austin in August 2023. Chad is a former Rotary Youth Exchange Student to Argentina from 2005-2006, and a former member of the Rotary Club of Anchorage South. In 2019, he met his beautiful wife, Genesis, while still living in Alaska, and they married in June of 2020. Since moving to Texas, Chad has continued to build his wealth management firm, Forefront Wealth Partners, has made a bunch of new, wonderful friends, joined the Rotary Club of Austin Southwest, and adopted his fun-loving Basenji, Luna. In his free time, Chad loves to golf, play basketball, cook, run, and lift weights.