Maurizio Garro

CFO & Head of Investors at Sport Trading Life

Speaker

Maurizio Garro is a senior finance and risk executive with more than 20 years of experience across banking, financial services, quantitative risk management, data and artificial intelligence.

His career has spanned senior Finance Director, Risk Director and CFO responsibilities, including seven years with Lloyds Banking Group, where he worked at the intersection of finance, risk, capital, data and strategic decision-making. He has also held senior responsibilities within Close Brothers and has advised financial institutions and businesses on risk transformation, financial management, data, AI and technology-enabled decision processes.

Maurizio is a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and has developed a particular interest in the intersection between quantitative finance, machine learning, behavioural decision-making and risk under uncertainty.

He is currently CFO and Head of Investors at Sport Trading Life, an ecosystem seeking to professionalise sport trading through quantitative methods, disciplined execution, research and education.

At Sport Trading Life, Maurizio works on the application of concepts traditionally associated with quantitative finance to sports markets: probability estimation, Bayesian updating, expected value, portfolio construction, capital allocation, drawdown management, the Kelly Criterion, machine learning, market microstructure and systematic execution.