Waveguide Supplier

Antti Sunnari

Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder

As the CEO and Co-Founder of Dispelix, Antti has built a world-class team of experts in design and manufacturing to support the company’s mission of delivering next-generation visual solutions for both consumer as well as enterprise AR and MR wearables.

Antti has established relationships with all major players in the space, ensuring Dispelix is working with customers that span the global ecosystem. Under his leadership, Dispelix has raised $50M in funding to date.

Since 2011, Antti has been working with diffractive gratings and augmented reality optics. He has worked at VTT Research Institute of Finland focusing on printability of functional inks in R2R processes, printed sensors, printed photovoltaics, roll-to-roll printed diagnostics tests and diffractive gratings manufacturing in R2R process and wafer level.

Antti is a graduate of the University of Oulu where he also received his Master’s degree. He has multiple patents and patent applications.

Juuso Olkkonen

Chief Scientific Officer | Co-Founder

As Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder of Dispelix, Juuso created Dispelix’s proprietary waveguide design software. He leads strategic R&D initiatives targeting novel waveguide design concepts and disruptive design capability.

Juuso has been (co-)inventor in almost 40 % of the Dispelix's patent families.

Paula Sirén

Chief Financial Officer

As the Chief Financial Officer of Dispelix, Paula Siren is responsible for all corporate financial matters including investor relations. Paula has a comprehensive financial background and brings more than 10 years of finance administration in the mass manufacturing field.

Paula is a graduate of the University of Jyväskylä.

Ismo Vartiainen

Chief Technology Officer

As the CTO for Dispelix and Docent (Adjunct Professor) at UEF in the field of micro- and nanophotonics fabrication, Ismo is an expert in electron beam lithography with more than ten years of hands-on experience in lithography and working in the clean room. He is an expert in fabrication process development and optimization, especially in electron beam lithography and post-processing techniques. Ismo has a broad theoretical knowledge of photonics and modern optics.

Ismo has theoretical and experimental expertise in X-ray optics and applications designing and conducting experiments at large-scale facilities, such as Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (Germany), Swiss Light Source (Switzerland), Hard X-ray free-electron laser at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (USA), Diamond Light Source (United Kingdom), and Synchrotron Soleil (France).

Ismo is a graduate of University of Eastern Finland with multiple degrees.

Jussi Rahomäki

Chief Product Officer

As Chief Product Officer & President of Dispelix USA Inc, Jussi manages the US subsidiary of Finland based Dispelix Limited where his team is focused on growing the North American customer base. In addition to his management work in the US, Jussi is also responsible for scaling the product lines and teams for both DPX Selva and DPX Sade waveguides.

Jussi has extensive experience in diffractive and nanoscale optics and is pursuing technology and business initiatives at the forefront of the augmented reality industry. He has focused on augmented reality and nanoscale optics technologies at various business and academic positions over the last decade.

He spent three years at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology where he focused on the design and fabrication of novel diffractive x-ray optics applications for high resolution x-ray imaging and nano focusing. Jussi received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Eastern Finland. He has been published in 14 academic journals and holds seven patents.

Maija Puustinen

General Counsel

As the General Counsel and a member of the Leadership Team at Dispelix, Maija heads up all legal operations including contracts and negotiation, patent filings, intellectual property protections, and supply chain partnerships. Maija has practiced at Bird & Bird International Law Firm specializing in Intellectual Property, R&D, licensing and supply. Prior to that, Maija was a technology lawyer at Nokia.

Maija graduated from University of Helsinki where she also obtained her law degree.

Josh Littlefield

Chief Revenue Officer

Josh Littlefield, Chief Revenue Officer