Summary
Visa Suomi is a healthcare industry leader with eight years of experience translating advanced medical research into commercial products and partnerships. Currently Global Industry Manager for Healthcare at MathWorks, she drives vertical strategy and serves as a subject-matter expert linking cross-functional teams with key customers and associations. Her background spans clinical research and R&D—developing ML and data-analysis tools for diagnostic imaging, contributing to oncology trials, and supporting MR-HIFU system verification for regulatory compliance. She holds a DPhil from Oxford with published work in ultrasound therapies and has applied that technical depth in industry roles at Philips, Merck, and Turku University Hospital. Visa combines domain expertise in medical machine learning with practical go-to-market experience, and has advised on visionary projects like cloud-based virtual human twins for EU healthcare. Based in Munich, she brings a rare mix of hands-on research, regulatory-savvy engineering, and strategic partnership building.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil), Healthcare Innovation, Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil), Healthcare Innovation at University of Oxford
BSc & MSc, Physics, Distinction, 4.2/5.0, BSc & MSc, Physics, Distinction, 4.2/5.0 at Aalto University
Visiting PhD student, Biomedical Ultrasound, Visiting PhD student, Biomedical Ultrasound at Columbia University in the City of New York
Visiting graduate student, International Business Management, Visiting graduate student, International Business Management at Waseda University
Finnish, English, German, Swedish, Japanese