Ramon holds a Masters Degree in Economics with a specialisation in international financial economics and Investment theory. He joined Blue Sky Group (which manages the pension assets of KLM) in February 2000 as quantitative analyst in the Performance&Risk department. Ramon was responsible for setting up and implementing the manager monitoring and selection process at Blue Sky Group. Currently, he works as a senior fund manager equities. One of his major tasks is the selection and monitoring of the external equity managers. He is also involved in equity transitions. Ramon speaks quite frequently on international conferences regarding manager selection, monitoring and transition management. He is co-author of two articles published in the Journal of Porfolio management (spring 2009 and 2011 edition) on the performance of 130-30 strategies and one article on Managed Volatility strategies in the Journal Of Investing (Autumn 2013). Also, he published two articles about transition management in the Journal Of Trading (Fall 2016 and Spring 2017).