Paolo Sironi

Paolo Sironi


Paolo Sironi is Thought Leader of Wealth Management at IBM Risk Analytics, promoting goal based investing and quantitative methods for financial advisory (retail/private banking, families and institutionals). Combining risk analytics and technology, Paolo's expertise spans wealth and asset management, risk management, banking regulation, cognitive computing, digitalisation and Robo-Advisors. Before joining IBM, Paolo founded a German FinTech (Capitects, 2008), a joint venture between Sal. Oppenheim Private Bank and Algorithmics (Risk Management Solutions provider) offering B2B solution featuring private portfolio re-balancing. Capitects became part of IBM following the Algorithmics acquisition. Prior to Capitects, Paolo served for 10 years as head of market and counterparty risk modelling at Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. He is author of quantitative literature: "Modern Portfolio Management: from Markowitz to Probabilistic Scenario Optimisation" (2015)