World-class additions to Healthzilla advisory board

Healthzilla is delighted the share the news that two new world-class health and wellness professionals have recently joined the Healthzilla advisory board: Dr. Miina Öhman and Juha Pinomaa.

Miina is a physician scientist who works as a Senior Research Fellow at Duke-NUS Medical School. She has studied obesity, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes for the past two decades. Miina is also an ardent advocate of preventive medicine (= healthy lifestyle!) as a means of increasing people’s health span.

“I am eager to help Healthzilla to reach new heights by bringing to the team my expertise and the latest scientific knowledge on metabolic and chronic diseases”, Miina says with great enthusiasm for which she is well-known.

Miina K. Ohman.jpg

Juha has been an active business executive in the wearable space for the past 15 years. He has a good sense of what kind of innovations can change the world in the health tech space. Among other things, Juha has held numerous pivotal positions in the industry including the CEO of Suunto and Omegawave.

“The industry has been waiting for AI to come and create more holistic and user centric sports and health services. To me it seems Healthzilla has a good chance of playing a key role in that transition”, Juha explains his motivation for entering the Healthzilla advisory board.

Juha.png

“The whole Healthzilla team and I personally are extremely happy to welcome both Miina and Juha to our advisory board which now boasts world-class professionals in many relevant fields to our business (see a previous news on the topic). We believe Miina will especially strengthen our scientific rigour and know-how related to lifestyle diseases. At the same time, we see that Juha can support us with his strong understanding of international business and experience of funding and development of growth”, says Laura Ranin, the CEO of Healthzilla. “Both Miina and Juha are great additions to our team at this very moment. After all, we are about to embark on the next phase of our growth about which we will share some more news soon!”, Laura laughs and winks her eye.

A few interesting facts about the new advisors:

  • Physical activities have always played a big role in Miina’s life - from ice climbing to dancing tango, and everything in between!

  • Juha’s interest for sports and health go back to the early 80’s when he was starting up American football in Finland and winning the first European championship  for Finland.

Tommi Ryyppö