Meet our team

Prateek Singh
Founder, CEO
Prateek established Finnadvance in 2018, and got EU Horizon 2020 funding as a one-person company. He has 14 years of experience in bioengineering and holds Btech in Biotechnology and MSc in Biochemistry and Protein science.

Tuan Nguyen
Chief Technology Officer
Tuan runs our chip production and development laboratory, and is an experienced industrial bioengineer and microtechnology expert. Tuan holds MSc in biomedical engineering from the International University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Jere Kettunen
Biofabrication Engineer
Jere is our talented fabrication engineer. With a background in biochemistry, he efficiently merges the biology with the engineering. He is prototyping and developing our hybrid manufacturing technologies.

Jari Moilanen
Chief Operating Officer
Jari handles the daily operations at Finnadvance. He is experienced in operations management, B2B sales, procurement and industry consulting. Jari holds MSc in marketing and management from the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Tuomas Nurmi
Chief Medical Officer
Tuomas in working on anatomical tissue modelling and clinical aspects of organ-on-chip devices at Finnadvance. Tuomas is currently specializing in clinical dentistry and holds MSc degree in Biochemistry/cell and molecular biology from the University of Oulu, Finland.

Siiri-Liisa Rissanen
Point-of-Care Sequencing Biochemist
Siiri runs our in-house Nanopore sequencing R&D. Talk to Siiri about your next sequencing project!

Minna Kihlström
Chief Scientific Officer
Minna is the quality control and in vitro laboratory manager at Finnadvance. She holds PhD in vascular biology and is passionate in helping academic researchers to make better science.

Anniina Palojärvi
Systems Engineer
Anniina is one of our newest team members specialized in biomedical engineering. She runs key operations at the chip production and development laboratory.