Ari Siponmaa
Chairman
Ari is a managing partner at Aura Capital. He has a strong background in corporate management consulting. Prior to his assignment at Aura Capital he worked as a consultant at Andersen Consulting, Siar Bossard and AT Kearney.

Matti Hautsalo
Director
Matti has a background in investment banking with over ten years experience in early stage finance arrangements, private equity investing, and trade sales to industry. He is currently a partner with Aura Capital and a non-executive director in five start-up companies. Former roles include Privanet Capital (Managing Director) and ING (economist, analyst and portfolio manager in asset management).

Jari Strandman
Managing Director
Tel: +358 40 700 6968
E-Mail: Jari.Strandman@ipfinland.com
Jari has spent his career in technology commercialisation. He has been a founding director in several Finnish and UK companies.  Previous to his assignment in Oxford, he held corporate technology management positions at Finnish multi billion euro manufacturing companies, Partek Corp. and Sisu Corp. (both now part of Kone Corporation). He gained extensive experience working with government funding agencies when he chaired the board of a Tekes (National Technology Agency of Finland) Technology Programme for the Finnish manufacturing industry. Jari has significant international experience managing academic collaborations and operating at the interface of the public and private research sectors. Before his assignment at Sisu, Jari spent three years working for Tekes in Boston, Massachusetts where his assignments included working with MIT’s Industrial Liaisons programs to advise Finnish companies about sourcing technology from MIT. Jari has also held management positions at Finn-Aqua, a Finnish supplier of water stills to worldwide pharmaceutical industry.