people suffer from anxiety and depression globally
depression is projected to be leading cause of health burden (WHO)
suicides globally each year
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).
Sérgio is a Portuguese software engineer with a European identity, who found comfort in the Finnish silence and beautiful nature. He builds software, and everything it requires: software architecture, risk management, IT security management, integrations, interoperability standards, and artificial intelligence.
Sérgio has 8 years of experience in startup environments in highly regulated industries, such as a heath and finance,
Sofia has 20+ years of building brands, customer experience (CX) and commercializing research. Currently, she holds the position of 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.
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 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.
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.
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.