Mark Mehtonen is a cross asset Portfolio Manager in the Alpha team of Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company in Helsinki, Finland. His main focus is in equity volatility using a variety of approaches across markets to create absolute return. Before he joined Ilmarinen in 2013, he worked as a portfolio manager responsible for EM and derivative strategies at Icecapital in Helsinki and as an EM derivatives trader as well as a derivatives salesperson at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Mehtonen holds a M.Sc. in applied mathematics from Helsinki University of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD.