BOARD MEMBERS
Oulu Entrepreneurship Society is run by a student-led board that operates for one calendar year. Get to know our team below and send us a message.
Ville Saarenpää
Chairman of the board
Ville is a social and active student from the University of Oulu. He recently graduated with an MSc. from Mechanical Engineering and started his new Master's studies in International Business Management.
Ville is a curious individual and has a long history in various student organizations, with positions ranging mostly from business relations and partnerships to international affairs, team leading, and management. Ville was first introduced to the Entrepreneurship Societies back in 2018 and joined the board in 2019. Currently, he is serving his second year as the President of OuluES.
As the Chairman of the board, Ville is in charge of partnerships and leading the association towards the vision of OuluES.
CONTACT
ville@oulues.com
+358 50 460 9852
Mona Peyvasteh
COMMUNITY LEAD
Mona received her M.Sc. degree in Solid State Physics from K.N. Toosi, Tehran, Iran. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in Photonics and a researcher at the I4Future doctoral program under Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship working in Opto-Electronic and Measurement Techniques research (OPEM) unit at the University of Oulu. She serves as the president of SPIE and vice-president of OSA student chapters of Oulu which are the international non-profit organizations in the field of Optics and Photonics. During her volunteer works, she was responsible to organize different events such as outreach in public places, workshops at schools and companies visits.
Due to her research topic potential and her long-term passion for entrepreneurship and startups, she started to attend several courses and workshops to raise her knowledge in those fields. She had a short entrepreneurship experience in her home country as a co-founder of a company in the field of education in medical radiation. She has been also a volunteer in Startup Refugees from 2020 to help immigrants with starting their businesses and entering the Finnish labor market.
Now, she serves as the community lead in OuluES for this year and is engaged with organizing events, creating connections between collaborators and the members, networking with companies in different fields to provide proper contents for the target guilds.
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Teresa Li
EVENTS LEAD
Li Yinan (Teresa) is a student in the last year of her second degree in international business in Oulu. She has a keen interest in enterprises’ strategy and excels at project management.Originally from Beijing, China, where she co-founded a company focusing on high-technology and education projects in cooperation between Finland and China.
She is passionate about organizing events, meeting new people, helping people from different industries to meet each other, creating more opportunities for them to study and develop possible new businesses.
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Anca Teodosiu
Secretary
Anca is currently pursuing her master's degree in Education and Globalization at the University of Oulu and before that, she was living, studying, and working for ten years in Denmark and Malaysia. Originally from Romania, she has a bachelor's in International Business and during her studies, she has volunteered with the student organization AIESEC and United Nations. She has worked as a project coordinator and teacher.
She is a lifelong learner and hopes to make a change in the education field. When Anca is not studying or working, she enjoys spending her time running, hiking, dancing, doing yoga, listening to podcasts, and reading.
In 2021, she joined as a board member of OuluES where she hopes to learn more about entrepreneurship and help other people develop their entrepreneurial journey.
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Joonas Tapio
Treasurer
Joonas, in addition to being a student, is an entrepreneur with five years of experience, and a day trader with three years of experience. During this time he has accumulated a vast amount of knowledge and insight regarding entrepreneurship and hands-on know-how about the running of a company as well as the expertise to evaluate business ideas.
Joonas is planning to found another company for capital management in the near future, and he has a strong interest towards stock and derivative markets. He has just recently completed studies provided by Aalto EE for financial Advising (APV1&2), and has plans to utilize them in the job markets or through his own company.
Joonas is a second year student in Oulu Business School and he is currently writing his bachelor's degree and he is planning to major in Finance.
During year 2021 Joonas is the Treasurer in the board of OuluES.
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Jinni Jinghui Lü
MARKETING LEAD
Jinni, moved from her hometown Shanghai to Oulu, is currently studying for the second Master´s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Oulu. In addition being a student, she is also an entrepreneur specializing in China market development and social media marketing with 5+ year experience. She got the first Master´s degree in Oulu Business School.
Being positive and open-mined, she continuously looking for opportunities to develop herself further. During past years, Jinni has been contributing in a various of volunteer roles related to business and entrepreneurship, for example 4 times in different roles in Polar Bear Pitching.
Jinni enjoying very much doing outdoor activities in the nature, especially in the beautiful and quiet Finnish Lapland.
For the year 2021, she is the Marketing Lead in the board of OuluES. Her target is to promote entrepreneurship and make OuluES visible through partnership and collaboration with different organizations.
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Anna-Heumann Kaya
Operative Educational Lead
Anna Heumann-Kaya is a social and active student of Intercultural Teacher Education at the University of Oulu. She has a previous bachelors degree in International Studies (US), done master studies in Social anthropology (Turkey), and holds an Early Childhood Educator degree (UK). Anna has worked in various education training and teaching positions since 2010, including kindergarten teaching, tutoring, and Erasmus + coordination. She was previously a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Turkey.
Anna is passionate about organizing educational events. She believes in the power of networking and finding one’s owns entrepreneurial path through the help of others.
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Filip Sever
Administrative Education Lead
Filip is a Master’s Degree student in the Learning, Education and Technology programme at the University of Oulu. Filip holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration from KAMK. During his studies at KAMK he worked on summer school and course design projects for Finnish and International students. Currently he is a project manager at KAMK, working full time on NPA and H2020 funded projects.
As the Administrative Education Lead, Filip will work closely with the Operational Education Lead to provide ECTS accreditation for participating students from Oulu University and OAMK.
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