
After a childhood spent moving, a conventional start at Deloitte and a spell of freelancing at business school, Michael Burdick decided that finance professionals deserved more say in where their talent went. Paro became his ten-year experiment in making autonomy add up.

After two decades running marketplaces and customer operations, Paro's CEO is betting that the future of finance belongs to algorithms that know their limits - and experts who know what to do next.