The Core Team

Our core team consists of Mari, Riksa, Pedu, and since 2022 also Elisa and Ansku. Our mission is to develop the best app for all you agility people who want to take your training and competing to the next level whilst respecting your dogs. And we are very much a part of this group. More and more skills are required to succeed in the sport, but our dogs cannot take part in endless training sessions seven times a week. And it really doesn’t lead to the best outcome either. We want to help you improve the quality of your training to achieve good outcomes without excessive and unnecessary strain to the dogs - and good outcomes also keep the motivation high. 

We cooperate actively with other dog agility people, agility trainers, competition organizers, and several companies. If you'd like to cooperate with us, don't hesitate to contact us. We are especially interested in doing marketing together with other companies who are supporting dog agility in some way, e.g. creating great products that help in training or competitions.

Mari Oksanen Founder, CEO

Mari Oksanen
Founder

Rikupekka Oksanen  Co-founder, Advisor

Rikupekka Oksanen
Co-founder, CFO

Pekka Halonen Partner & CTO

Pekka Halonen
CTO, Partner

Elisa Nauha
Chief Product Owner, Partner

 

Mari Oksanen, Founder

Mari Oksanen, the Founder of AgiNotes and the former CEO, lives and breathes agility. Together with Rikupekka, she has three dogs: two shelties Hippu and Smurffi, and one border collie, Hyvis.

Mari is a very active competitor and also does some coaching. She has represented Finland in WAO a couple of times with Hippu and enjoys the adrenaline rush of big arenas. Her challenges in agility training and competitions have been the starting ground for the AgiNotes app. Mari brings new ideas and develops both the product and the business together with the team.

 

Rikupekka Oksanen, Co-Founder, CFO

Rikupekka Oksanen is the co-founder and partner in AgiNotes and the kepo (groom) of the year - every year. He has been following the sport very keenly and when Mari is ill or too busy, he trains the dogs.

He also follows many other sports and brings in great ideas inspired by them. Riksa is an expert in project management and testing and participates actively in our customer support.

 

Pekka Halonen, CTO, Partner

Pekka "Pedu" Halonen is a running developer, who has two Spanish water dogs, Niksi and Vinkki. In the same household there also live two Australian kelpies.

Pedu is a very active agility coach and competitor, as well as the CTO and partner in AgiNotes. To develop a really useful app for agility people, you need to know the sport inside out, and Pedu knows it!

Elisa Nauha, CPO, Partner

Elisa Nauha is a crystallographer now turned to IT specialist and dog sport enthusiast. She first joined AgiNotes as a trainee and partnered up to continue with developing AgiNotes and her IT expertise. She has two dogs, a mostly retired sprollie Ansa and a young bordercollie Koodi. In addition to agility she has competed in obedience, rally-obedience and skijoring/canicross - not yet at a top level, but heading up one skill (or technically parts of many skills) at a time. Keeping track of the steps to a goal is what AgiNotes can help do! Elisa is an active member in her local agility club where she also coaches agility.