PAOLO SIRONI is a global thought leader for Wealth Management and Investment Analytics at IBM, where he is responsible for promoting quantitative methods, Goal Based Investing (GBI) and digital solutions for financial advisory. His expertise combines financial services and technology and spans over a number of areas, including wealth management, asset management, risk management and FinTech innovation. Prior to IBM, he founded a FinTech startup that provided GBI portfolios to wealth managers. This venture subsequently became a part of IBM following the acquisition of funding partner Algorithmics, a world leader of risk management and investment analytics. Paolo possesses a decade-long risk management expertise; he was previously head of market and counterparty risk modeling at Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. He is the author of Modern Portfolio Management: From Markowitz to Probabilistic Scenario Optimisation, and contributing author to The FinTech Book.