Tessa Sipilä

Tessa Sipilä has a range of work experience, starting with their current position as the Marketing & Business Development Lead at Optomed Plc. Prior to this, they worked as a Business Development Manager at the same company. Before joining Optomed, Tessa worked as a Territory Manager at Abbott for three years. Tessa also has experience at Dual Laser Ltd. Oy, where they started as a Product Specialist and later became a Product Manager. In this role, they were responsible for sales, budgeting, product training, marketing activities, and customer relationship management. Tessa's earlier experience includes working as a Research Scientist at the University of Helsinki, where they studied the genetic background of anxiety disorders, and as a Master's student, where they focused on circadian clock-related genes as candidate genes for anxiety disorders.

Tessa Sipilä holds a Master's Degree in Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Jyväskylä, which they obtained from 2003 to 2008. In 2007, they briefly studied Biomedical studies: genetics and immunology at the University of Aberdeen. In 2011, they took Kasvatustieteiden perusopinnot (yleinen ja aikuiskasvatustiede) at the University of Helsinki. Currently, they are pursuing a Teacher's pedagogical qualification at the Haaga-Helia School of Vocational Teacher Education, expected to be completed in 2022.