Inka Mero
Co-Founder, ChairmanInka is a new business executive with a track in building growth businesses, online community services and mobile software businesses in Scandinavia, US and Israel.
She is passionate about service and business innovation - for startups and new business projects she brings over 14 years of internet, mobile/telecom industry, technology and market experience from companies like Digia, Nokia, Sonera and Apaja (aapeli.fi), where she has acted in CEO, management team or strategic business development and VC investor roles.
Inka is also co-entrepreneur and Chief Product Officer at DesignStory (Silicon Valley), Koppi porfolio company with innovative private sales service for design, and a board member at GWS Staffpoint, leading strategic resourcing company in Finland.
Harry Santamäki
CEO & Co-FounderHarry is a strategic 'change agent'. He is identifying opportunities from new technology, new business models and new applications. His experience ranges from telecom, media, content, Internet to venturing methodology and corporate strategy.
Harry has entrepreneured new businesses in Finland and US, and established venturing operations and new businesses for Nokia. He's visionary mindset and "hands-on" approach combined with extremely strong industry network are great assets for startups and new businesses.
Oskari Lehtonen
Oskari is the newest member of Koppi Team. He has vast experience in working with start-ups from the last 15 years. In other words he knows what it takes to market yourself to a big company and how it feels to try to secure funding practically only with Power Point slides. His former big projects are Reippailuhalli Huimala (www.huimala.fi) and he is the founding partner and CEO of one emerging and hot new marketing concept called "daily deals" in Finland (www.offerium.fi). Even though Oskari is a practical and hands-on oriented person he has also written his PhD on entrepreneurship and venture capital (in a review process). He has conducted research in Stanford University, Silicon Valley and Singapore among other places. For example U.S. MBA students commonly read Oskari's article (co-authored) on various entrepreneurial funding choices. Oskari is mainly interested in consumer related applications and services and media sector.