Former SurveyMonkey President Named OURA CEO

In the US, former SurveyMonkey President Tom Hale has joined sleep optimization app ŌURA as Chief Executive Officer. He replaces Harpreet Singh Rai, who stepped down from the role in December to seek his 'next adventure'.

Headquartered in Oulu, Finland, ŌURA also has offices in Helsinki, San Francisco and San Diego, and is the company behind tech device the Oura Ring, which tracks all stages of sleep and claims to use the resulting data, insights and guidance to improve sleep, mood, and overall health. The firm comprises a team of developers, doctors, designers, data scientists, researchers, product managers and marketers. Earlier this month, ŌURA announced it had raised capital at a $2.55 billion valuation.

Hale (pictured) joined SurveyMonkey (now Momentive) in 2016, where he designed the firm's Enterprise growth strategy. Prior to this he spent six years as COO at holiday home rental site HomeAway, helping to build the team, platform, product and business for the firm's 2015 sale to Expedia for $3.9bn. Prior to this he was Chief Product Officer at Second Life developer Linden lab, and he held senior roles at Adobe and Macromedia, having worked at the latter during the decade prior to its sale to Adobe.

Eurie Kim, Chairperson of the Board, said: 'Tom brings decades of technology leadership across both consumer and B2B businesses to ŌURA. With his extensive knowledge of scaling consumer and enterprise membership experiences, and leading teams through hyper-growth, we couldn't be more thrilled to welcome Tom to the ŌURA team and Board'.

Web site: www.ouraring.com .

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