About — ORamaVR

The founding story

25 years of research.
One clear mission.

ORamaVR was founded by researchers who had spent decades building the underlying science — computer graphics, XR algorithms, clinical education — and saw that the technology was finally ready to make a real difference in how medicine is taught.

“Advancing the future of healthcare is the moral priority of our time. Nearly 5 billion people lack access to essential surgical care. The current medical training system has remained largely unchanged for over 150 years.”

Dr. George Papagiannakis, CEO & Co-founder

The founding team brought together computer science (University of Crete, ICS-FORTH, University of Geneva), orthopaedic surgery (Aristotle University, Imperial College London), and robotics research — with the explicit goal of building a 30-year company around the problem of medical training at scale.

Today the MAGES platform is in use at 30+ institutions across 10 countries, backed by 65+ peer-reviewed publications and a clear product-market fit. We are now scaling to meet demand.

Company milestones

2026

Late-seed funding & global expansion

Funding round from leading European deep-tech & strategic VCs to lead the Computational Medical XR category. MAGES OMEN and global expansion underway.

2025

First med-tech & surgical robotic deployments

First med-tech, IVD and surgical robotic training deployments at Zimmer Biomet, Roche and Sofmedica/Isle-Academy.

2024

AI proctoring launched

JARIA released, addressing the core proctor bottleneck in simulation training at scale. Invitation to participate in the nVidia Inception programme.

2023

Swiss Accelerator Project

Open Medical Educational Neural mEtaverse — selected amongst the top 50 Swiss deep-tech startups by Innosuisse.

2022

Seal of Excellence Award

Awarded by the European Innovation Council for the MAGES platform and ORamaVR business plan.

2021

First clinical deployments

MAGES platform deployed at Inselspital Bern and Geneva University Hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020

Founded in Geneva

ORamaVR established with co-founders from University of Crete, ICS-FORTH, and orthopaedic surgery.

Leadership team

The people
behind the platform.

A team of computer scientists, clinicians, and operators united by a long-term mission to transform medical education through spatial computing.

Dr. George Papagiannakis

CEO / CTO / Co-founder

Computer scientist specialising in computer graphics and XR algorithms. Professor at University of Crete. 120+ publications, 8M+ EUR in research funding. Previously at University of Geneva.

Prof. Eleftherios Tsiridis, MD, PhD

Chief Medical Officer / Co-founder

Secretary General of the European Hip Society. Vice Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at Aristotle University. Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. 170 publications, 7,000 citations.

Prof. Panos Trahanias

Chief Robotics Officer / Co-founder

Professor at University of Crete and ICS-FORTH. Director of the Computational Vision & Robotics Laboratory. 20+ years in AR, computer vision, and robotics. 100+ publications.

Nils Huebner

Chief Operating Officer

International executive with 20+ years in sales, business development, and corporate strategy. Previously in leadership roles at SunGard and StatPro. Deep expertise in XR technology commercialisation.

Jan Grund Pedersen

Chief Business Officer

20+ years of experience in Med-tech, with a strong track record in business development and sales. Previously held senior roles at Mentice and Surgical Science, two of the leading companies in surgical simulation.

George Lagoudakis

Legal Counsel

College of Europe Alumni (Bruges, Promotion Leonardo Da Vinci), LLM in European Law. Member of the Bar of Thessaloniki since 2000. Specialises in Corporate Law, Commercial Contracts, and Technology Transfer Agreements, with extensive experience advising healthcare businesses, start-ups, and spin-offs.

Eleni Grigoriou

Senior Director of Product Management

MSc in Computer Science with specialization in XR. Senior Director of Product Management with 5+ years leading XR product development in medical simulation.

Amalia Kargopoulou

Senior Director of Business Development

MA in Conflict, Security and Development (King's College London) and BA in Political Science (Aristotle University). Brings a background in exports, administration, and a passion for human development to ORamaVR.

Michael Kentros

Senior Director of Product Development

Software engineer specialising in VR and ML applications. MSc in Computer Science, researching VR skill assessment with ML. PhD candidate and researcher at ICS-FORTH Computer Vision & Robotics Lab.

Advisory board

Guided by leaders in
medicine, technology, and research.

Prof. Christos Kozyrakis, PhD

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University. Multi-scale Architecture & Systems team.

Walter Greenleaf, PhD

Behavioural Neuroscientist and Medical Technology Developer, Stanford University.

Craig Patterson

CFO at Autonomic Technologies. Over 25 years of experience in corporate finance and life sciences.

Built on one conviction:
no patient should be anyone’s first.