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Mari is one of the founders and the CEO of the company. She has over 20 years of experience in industrial process instrumentation applications in her previous jobs. At VTT she worked as a team leader and senior scientist. Mari has excellent organizational skills with good sense of business. In Timegate, Mari wants to create inspiring workplace with strong company culture and ambitious goals. In addition to CEO’s duties, her responsibility is to find new applications, new markets and new potential customers for the Timegate’s products and technology. She is the ´mother´ of office dog Tapsu.

Lauri is a main tech & science guy and one of the founders. He has M.Sc. in theoretical physics and more than a decade of experience in the applied variety. You most probably find him in the lab, working on the hardware, software and esoteric math to make it all function together. He loves not only inelastic scattering but also photoluminescence and good humour.

Katherine has a doctoral degree in Polymer Science and Engineering and a broad experience working with spectroscopy in various fields e.g. in biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and PAT - process analytical technology. Dr. Bakeev has specialized in vibrational spectroscopy including Raman, near-infrared, and chemometrics and their applications for process understanding, monitoring, and control (PAT). She is also an accomplished scientist and leader with great knowledge and experience in applications, R&D, manufacturing, and software both in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry.

Amutha has a doctoral degree in Biophotonics with 10 years of experience in application of Raman spectroscopy for cancer/precancer detection and Raman imaging of cells and tissues. She was also a recipient for Marie Sklodowska Curie IF fellowship and has done extensive work in cancer diagnosis using continuous wave Raman spectroscopy and SERS. Furthermore, she has explored the possibility of discriminating negative cytology from different grades of dysplasia of oral exfoliated cells using time-gated Raman spectroscopy. Now she is focusing on the applicability of timegated Raman technology in mining, pharmaceutical and food industries. Cooking spicy Indian food is her relaxation.

Elina is creative and goal-directed marketing and communications professional with M.A. in Science Communications and Executive MBA Candidate. She has over 18 years of experience in every segment of marketing communications: from hands-on execution to strategic work as a team leader and a member of Executive Board. Her working background consists of marketing and  organizational communications as well as leading those operations, public relations, journalism, graphic design, sales and project management. Elina has been working in various fields of industries such as the health sector, education, science and research, ICT, travel industry, construction and engineering as well as in marketing agency. Elina has a solution-oriented and energetic attitude with cheerful personality.

Roosa has a BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration degree in marketing and sales. Roosa is very ambitious and she graduated with an excellent GPA. She has a great enthusiasm for learning more about marketing and communications. Roosa is particularly interested in SEO and Social Media Marketing but is still excited to learn holistically about marketing. Her strengths are efficiency, goal-orientation and organising. In addition, she has very developmental and creative attitude towards working. In terms of her willingness to develop, she also likes to improve and take care of her overall health.  

Jacopo has a Doctoral degree in Pharmacy. His work is focused on the biopharmaceutical application of Raman spectroscopy. In his studies, he applied various photonics techniques in the characterization of complex biological samples. He enjoys outdoor activities such as mountain biking and hiking in his freetime.

Bryan is a young and energetic chemist with a degree in M.Sc. (chemistry) and experience and background in analytical chemistry. He has work experience in fields of pharmaceuticals, mining industries and R&D projects. Bryan is focused on studying Timegated Raman spectroscopy applications and development of data processing algorithms and routines. Bryan is our mysterious ‘TGI man’ as seen in our completely serious TGI videos.

Arttu is our production manager with a B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering within Mechanical and Production Engineering. He has gathered experience from diverse industries. Arttu has a decade of experience working with military aviation, mainly with helicopters, including production planning, assembly environment, maintenance planning and ERP-systems. Past couple of years he has been working with railway industry also on customer interface in after-sales and service department.

Arttu is working as a hands-on guy for production, as a goal to contribute a productional take on our production. His spare time activities support our field of work, as he enjoys of various technical challenges with radio-controlled model airplanes and basically anything powered with combustion engine. Despite the serious background on his line of work, he enjoys good (dark)humour and relaxed atmosphere.

Miska has always been interested in electronics and he made his child hood hobby of playing with electronics and computers into a profession later in life. He has been working on multiple projects for different companies as a PCB designer, prototype designer, and exhibit designer. Miska can be described as the “jack of all trades” kind of guy. In his free time, Miska likes to tinker with cars mechanically as well as ECU and TCU programming. Miska also enjoys good music, old computers, good games, and good humor.

Sanna has a long history in various logistics roles in different fields e.g. electronics, groceries, and timber export.  She has a BBA degree in International Business. She has also taken courses in industrial management, marketing, and economics. As a Logistics Specialist at Timegate, Sanna takes care of our export and import tasks but also participates daily in supply chain and warehouse management. She is always ready to help where needed. Sanna is solution-orientated and always has a cheerful and positive attitude toward working. In her spare time, Sanna enjoys walking in nature and picking berries or mushrooms. She also likes to knit traditional Luotolainen pullovers for her family members.

Risto has a M.Sc in Electronics and more than 15 years of design experience of various types of electronic gadgets including optoelectronic devices, high-speed electronics and even consumer products. Over the past five years, Risto has focused more on optoelectronic system design, single-photon counting technology, optics and optomechanics. Risto likes to act as a glue between the customer, R&D team and marketing.

Rami has M.Sc. in Electronics and he has a long experience in the field. He has been working with optoelectronic devices R&D for 16 years before joining Timegate. His work has been around spectroscopy, ranging, and machine vision systems. Rami's expertise is in analog, digital, and system design as well as testing. He likes working in multidisciplinary teams and takes responsibility in project planning and management.

Vineeth studied theoretical physics and graduated as a master of Photonics from the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. He has previously spent some time at ETH Zürich levitating nanoparticles with lasers. If he is not working with the photons collected by the SPAD detector he likes to hike and collect incoherent photons on CMOS sensors.

Juho has a M.Sc in Software Engineering and 13 years of versatile design and development experience. He started his career developing server backend systems, then moving on to develop embedded & desktop software for optical measurement devices. The last few years he has been developing IoT systems focusing more on the embedded side. At Timegate he can put his whole skill set in use in heading the software development activities that span from the device firmware to the cloud. He enjoys twiddling with retro computers and has a working Commodore 64 in his office as well.

Dmitri is our software engineer with B.Sc. in Automation Engineering. He has gathered experience by working with industrial hardware and test automation systems in different fields of technology. Dmitri has important role in software development of our products and related applications. If you don't find him in the lab, he's in the kitchen getting angry at an empty coffee pot.

Visa has been excited about electronics and gadgets his whole life. This enthusiasm led him to graduate with M.Sc in Computer Science and Engineering focusing on embedded software. Right from the get-go he has overcome tasks that have challenged his competence, and his joy of tinkering is only growing. The closer he gets to work on the hardware of any device, the happier he gets. On his free time, you most likely find him streaming and speedrunning games or playing Magic: The Gathering.