Markku Vartiainen

Markku Vartiainen is an experienced financial professional currently serving as Chief Portfolio Manager at Danske Bank since January 2020, overseeing the Global Alternative Opportunities fund. Prior to this role, Markku held the position of Head of Non-linear Trading at Nordea from December 2004 to December 2019, where responsibilities included complex risk management in structured credit and inflation trading, along with active trading and xVA risk management from 2014 to 2016. Markku's earlier experience includes working as a Senior Quant at SimCorp, focusing on model development, and serving as a Software Architect at Openwave Systems, where contributions involved programming language design for the World Wide Web Consortium. Markku Vartiainen holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Aalto University.