We are on a journey to enable individuals to become balanced humans
What Drives Us
547 Million
people suffer from anxiety and depression globally.
By 2030
depression is projected to be leading cause of health burden (WHO)
800 000
suicides globally each year
Team
Niklas Zilliacus
Chief Executive Officer
Niklas is a pioneer in the field of digital mental health, Oyama being his second mental health startup. Niklas is our domain expert and sales engine with deep domain experience in the field of digital health.
He has previously held significant sales positions in leading digital health companies, such as Finnish Kaiku Health (acquired by Elekta).
Jie Mei
Chief Scientific Officer
Mei joined Niklas in 2018 to build the foundation and found Oyama. On top of her extensive research experience as a PhD in Neuroscience, Mei has developed excellent skills as a data scientist and machine learning programmer.
Mei has previously been working as a researcher for a Berlin-based mental health startup and head of research at two AI startups.
Jaana Ojanen
Chief Psychologist
With a broad experience as a psychologist, organizational coach and relationship expert, Jaana joined in 2020 to lead our clinical interventions development.
Some of her career highlights include working as a relationship expert at the Family federation of Finland (Väestöliitto), developing internet-based/self-guided psychology interventions at Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) and serving as the psychologist for the Finnish reality tv-show Love Island.
Pawel Minkina
Software Engineer
Pawel is our committed software engineer supported by our experienced Polish development partner Luxdone. Pawel is a fast learner and very productive keeping the rest of the team busy to keep up with his pace.
He holds a masters in Informatics from Kielce University of Technology.
Salla Nyholm
Content Marketing Manager
Salla is our very creative, compassionate and skilful content professional. She’s heading our social media and content marketing. Her passion for mental health and well-being gravitated her towards us and her enthusiasm for making a difference in people’s lives is contagious.
Her background lies in early childhood education and she’s amazing with kids, writing children’s books and creating digital content on top of many other things.
Jing He
Illustrator/Graphical Designer
Jing is an exceptional graphical artist with a personal style and a broad skillset consisting of game character illustration, graphical and fine arts illustration, UI/UX design and 3D modelling to mention a few.
Jing has 8+ years of experience in graphical design and fine arts.
Sofia Lund
Board Member
Sofia has 20+ years of building brands, customer experience (CX) and commercializing research. Currently, senior director, CX & Brand at Blueprint Genetics (acquired by Quest Diagnostics).
Sofia’s holistic brand building expertise and experience of managing a CX team from start to exit is vital in building our global consumer health brand.
