Business and communications team
It's vital for a game company to understand business. Without that understanding, even a great game can take years to become a cult classic. That's why we've carefully built our business and communications team with top talent and massive experience.

Olli Rundgren
CEO & Founder
The passion for games took Olli to the high stakes poker tables in his twenties.
Poker inspired him to study the psychology of gaming and gambling addiction. He has studied vario us branches of science; chemistry, physics and cell- and molecular biology in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He co-founded Waucome in 2008. Company built prediction algorithm to detect impulsive gambling. Olli founded Psyon Games with the vision of combining the beauty of science: curiosity and understanding with the power of games. The vision of Psyon Games is to make Games for Healthier Living. Olli was selected as the top 10 private sector healthcare influencer list 2021 in Finland.

Pasi Piitulainen
Executive Chairman & Co-founder
Pasi has spent last 20 years in global pharmaceutical companies. He has been working in senior roles in multiple disciplines like; R&D, Finance and Procurement (Actelion Pharmaceuticals and Janssen).
Pasi has a master’s degree in Industrial Economy from Lappeenranta University of Technology and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Pasi’s passion is to promote and discover new innovative solution that would help the Life science industry to move to the digital age.

Valtteri Lahti
COO & Co-founder
Valtteri is a trained physicist, a teacher and a drag artist - a powerful combo of brains and heart. Under his operative lead Psyon Games has discovered its business in the fusion of the game industry and the life science industry. Throughout his journey at Psyon Games Valtteri has had major influence in shaping the company - from computational code to branding and from partnerships to team management.
Deep down Valtteri is a dedicated science communicator raising awareness about critical thinking, vaccines, climate change etc. wherever he goes. Witty and well-spoken, he uses his influence promote science and gamified information also as the dashing science queen Wanda O Rly!

Niko Pyrhönen
Exective Producer
Niko’s life-long passion for games has led him to make successful games already in 2 indie game companies of his own. By the time he graduated as a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), he was already widely networked with the Finnish and global game industry and known for his passion and talent. He has also done research about project management in mobile game SMEs. In the Psyon Games team Niko is responsible for marketing and managing many business and game development operations. Being both a strategist and a man of action, Niko makes things happen!
Development team
Of equal importance, of course, is a game development team that can really get stuff done. From fresh talent to industry veterans, our development team has been put together to exacting standards, to make sure the game gets done, and to make sure it gets done right.

Severi Vidnäs
Senior Programmer
Severi is a senior software developer & team player with passion for games and technologies of making them happen. Ever since his bachelor’s degree of computer software engineering in 2009 Severi has been turning his ambition into experience non-stop over a wide range of projects and teams. In his free time Severi enjoys making woodcraft and watching movies & series.

Niko Korhonen
Lead Artist

Harri Tusa
3D Artist
Harri is a 3D artist who lives for the love of films, games, and visual arts. With an engineering degree and years of experience in industrial advertisement and architectural visualization he brings the eye of an analytical artist to any project. But in his core, far from cold product design, Harri is still on an eternal quest to create art that makes us feel. Also, loves dogs.

Topias Paasonen
Lead Game Designer
Topias is a talented and hard-working game designer with a strong belief that games can be more than just entertainment. He wants to help change the public view of gaming into a more positive and multi-faceted light: be it teaching with games, spreading information in a more subtle way or even global problem solving. In addition to his personal experience, Topias is backed by a few decades of designer tutors.

You?
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Whether you’re a coder, an artist or a marketing expert, we have a wide range of career opportunities.
We look for certain things in all our people: motivation, vision, and a dedication to excellence. If you think you’re up to the challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
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Board of Advisors
The best practices are the ones have been tested to work but learning everything on your own takes a lot of time. That’s why our board of advisors is loaded with experience of international business, game industry, and the industries of our partners and customers.

Asko Niemelä
ADHD Advisor
Asko has over 20 year clinical experience of psychiatry. He is particularly interested in general hospital psychiatry, pain management and neuropsychiatry. Niemelä is one of the leading experts of ADHD in Finland and he has been working with clinical guidelines in Europe.

Pierre A. Morgon
Science Advisor
Pierre A. MORGON is CEO of MRGN Advisors and Regional Partner for Switzerland at Mérieux Développement. He is Chairman of the Board of Virometix, as well as Non-Executive Director to the Boards of Theradiag, of Eurocine Vaccines, of Vaccitech and of Univercells. Pierre has over 30 years of experience in the global life science industry at the helm of international operations, in C level positions at global level in multinational corporations and as CEO of start-up companies. He is a regular contributor to MBA programs and life science conferences, and he mentors start-up life sciences companies at the Mass Challenge incubator in Switzerland. He holds a Doctorate of Pharmacy, a Master in Business Law and a MBA and he is an alumnus of INSEAD and IMD.

Dr Jukka Puurunen
Science Advisor
Dr Puurunen has all-round know-how in many areas. Before entering the medical area, he studied economics and information technology. He is extremely interested in cellular-level mechanisms and combining immunology with gaming.

Tuomo Pätsi
Pharma Advisor
Tuomo Pätsi, a seasoned biopharmaceutical executive, has over 30 years of experience leading global companies in the industry, including Seagen Inc. and Celgene. He has also held key roles at Human Genome Sciences and Amgen. Currently, he's an independent biopharma advisor and serves on the boards of Faron Pharmaceuticals and Aqsens Health. Pätsi has been residing in Switzerland since 1999, with previous work experiences in Finland, France, and the US.