Mario Pardo

Risk Management Expert | Quantitative Finance Consultant

Mario Pardo has over 20 years of experience in risk management and quantitative finance. He was Risk Manager for a $3 billion European Family Office for two decades, focusing on portfolio construction and risk analytics. His work has been endorsed by Nobel Laureates Robert Merton and Myron Scholes.

Since 2019, he has collaborated with Columbia University’s Operations Research Department on research involving non-linear modeling, copula theory, and machine learning for multi-asset portfolio risk.

He is the founder and CEO of Ryse, Inc. (est. 2006), providing risk management consulting and solutions to pension funds, family offices, and hedge funds, where the overall sum of all assets advised by the company’s clients is north of $30 billion. Previously, he worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton advising on M&A transactions in agribusiness and consumer goods in Latin America.

Mr. Pardo holds degrees from Vanderbilt University and an MS from MIT’s Management of Technology program.

He has spoken at the Bloomberg Quant Seminar (2025), the Institutional Society of Risk Professionals (2024), and multiple GAIM hedge fund conferences globally.