Eriksholm Summer Camp, 18-22 August 2010

Henrik Ask
Henrik has been with Oticon A/S since 2008. Before joining Oticon, Henrik worked
in the Telecommunications and IT industries in Germany and in the UK. In his role as
Director of Corporate Marketing, Henrik has been involved in the development of the
renewed People First concept, successfully launched earlier this year. Henrik continues
to work on implementing the People First concept and universe in a number of different
corporate and communication activities. Henrik’s expertise includes managing
and promoting the Oticon brand philosophy both internally as well as externally.
Gabriel Aldaz
Gabriel is embarking on an industrial PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University,
sponsored by the Oticon Foundation. Gabriel began working at Oticon A/S in
2007 as a founding member of the Centre for Design Thinking (CDT). His primary role
at CDT was user-driven design, with an emphasis on the first phases of product development,
emerging technologies, and an understanding of user needs in the hearing
aid industry. Prior to joining Oticon A/S, Gabriel ran an electromechanical engineering
product development consultancy for nearly seven years in Palo Alto, California. He
holds a Master’s degree from Stanford University.
Joel Beilin
Joel is Senior Director & Head of the Audiology and Algorithms team in Oticon, and
he has been with Oticon since 1993. After five years at the research unit Eriksholm,
Joel moved to headquarters to create and lead the audiology team. With close to 50
highly skilled audiologists and signal processing specialists from all over the world,
Joel and his team are responsible for developing new audiology features and processing
schemes, as well as substantiating and documenting these in clinical tests and 3rd
party studies, and communicating this to the market through white papers and articles.
As part of the senior R&D management, Joel is also responsible for orchestrating
and executing the audiological strategy for Oticon.
Ravi Sockalingam
Ravi is Senior Audiologist at Oticon A/S. Before deciding to make a bold move into the
industry and to Denmark in November 2007, Ravi taught and researched in various
areas of clinical audiology in Australia, Canada and New Zealand for eight years as an
audiology faculty. His main role is co-ordinating and planning the audiology communication
strategy for Oticon’s premium instruments. Other roles include disseminating
the audiology concepts and the supporting evidence for the technological features in
Oticon instruments in peer-reviewed/trade journals, and at major audiology conferences
and Oticon events around the world.
Ivan Jørgensen
Ivan Jørgensen holds a Master’s degree in Digital Signal Processing (1993) and a Ph.D.
in Analogue Integrated Circuitry (1997). Since joining Oticon in 1997, Ivan has worked
with different aspects of analogue and mixed-mode IC design, ranging from sub-components
to system-level design of chip sets for Oticon hearing aids. For the last seven
years Ivan has been managing the team responsible for analogue and mixed-mode IC
design.
Ivan is a member of the Corps of Examiners at the Technical University of Denmark,
and has acted as an examiner for several Master and PhD projects. He has also published
14 papers in international conferences and journals, and is the holder of five
patents.
Oticon’s Training & Education Team
Training and educational materials developed by this team enable dispensers and
audiologists to reach a profound understanding of how to work with Oticon products,
fitting software and counselling tools to achieve optimal outcomes in their daily work.
Carsten Ahlbom has been working at Oticon A/S since 1975. He was the initiator of
the Oticon Education Department and he is presently a senior trainer responsible for
audiological education within the Oticon organisation as well as with customers. In
1988 he became Assistant Professor for Technical Audiology at Copenhagen University.
In 1996, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Warsaw Technical University
(Poland).
Regitze Willemoës After graduating from Frederiksberg Tekniske Skole in 1996 with
a degree in Audiology, Regitze worked as an audiologist both at Roskilde Hospital
and at the Private Hearing Clinic in Copenhagen. She then joined the Oticon Training
& Education Team in 2003 – a role she sees herself playing ‘until the end of time’. Regitze
is also Manager of the Oticon International Training Academy.
Husmita Ratanjee Having graduated from the University of Cape Town, South Africa
with an Audiology degree, Husmita practiced in public hospitals in South Africa (assessing
and fitting both adult and paediatric patients) before relocating to join Oticon
A/S in February 2010. As a member of Oticon’s Training & Education Team, Husmita is
responsible for audiological education and training materials.
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