RiskGuard was founded in 2022 by Gregory Maduro, an engineer and entrepreneur with a vision to change how investment firms manage risk. With a strong background in artificial intelligence he has worked as an engineer for Boeing, Banks and Hedgefunds before becoming a consultant for financial institutions.

Through extensive research Gregory identified a fundamental flaw in most financial models: overfitting. He observed that while many models performed well on historical data, they often failed in real-world conditions. This, he realized, is the biggest challenge in quantitative research.

Determined to find a better way, Gregory explored synthetic financial data, generating artificial market scenarios to test model performance beyond one historical path. He concluded that no model should ever be trusted based on a single historical path—it simply is not enough to prove how it will perform in the future. The only reliable way to test a model is by simulating a variety of possible market conditions before running it live.

With this in mind, Gregory built RiskGuard to help firms assess and manage risk before putting strategies into action. His goal is for RiskGuard to become the leading tool for benchmarking investment models—giving firms the ability to understand the risks behind every portfolio and build strategies that work not just in theory, but in real markets.