Eriksholm Summer Camp, 18-22 August 2010
Eriksholm Summer Camp, 18-22 August 2010
Eriksholm Summer Camp, 18-22 August 2010
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Henrik Ask<br />
Henrik has been with Oticon A/S since 2008. Before joining Oticon, Henrik worked<br />
in the Telecommunications and IT industries in Germany and in the UK. In his role as<br />
Director of Corporate Marketing, Henrik has been involved in the development of the<br />
renewed People First concept, successfully launched earlier this year. Henrik continues<br />
to work on implementing the People First concept and universe in a number of different<br />
corporate and communication activities. Henrik’s expertise includes managing<br />
and promoting the Oticon brand philosophy both internally as well as externally.<br />
Gabriel Aldaz<br />
Gabriel is embarking on an industrial PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University,<br />
sponsored by the Oticon Foundation. Gabriel began working at Oticon A/S in<br />
2007 as a founding member of the Centre for Design Thinking (CDT). His primary role<br />
at CDT was user-driven design, with an emphasis on the first phases of product development,<br />
emerging technologies, and an understanding of user needs in the hearing<br />
aid industry. Prior to joining Oticon A/S, Gabriel ran an electromechanical engineering<br />
product development consultancy for nearly seven years in Palo Alto, California. He<br />
holds a Master’s degree from Stanford University.<br />
Joel Beilin<br />
Joel is Senior Director & Head of the Audiology and Algorithms team in Oticon, and<br />
he has been with Oticon since 1993. After five years at the research unit <strong>Eriksholm</strong>,<br />
Joel moved to headquarters to create and lead the audiology team. With close to 50<br />
highly skilled audiologists and signal processing specialists from all over the world,<br />
Joel and his team are responsible for developing new audiology features and processing<br />
schemes, as well as substantiating and documenting these in clinical tests and 3rd<br />
party studies, and communicating this to the market through white papers and articles.<br />
As part of the senior R&D management, Joel is also responsible for orchestrating<br />
and executing the audiological strategy for Oticon.<br />
Ravi Sockalingam<br />
Ravi is Senior Audiologist at Oticon A/S. Before deciding to make a bold move into the<br />
industry and to Denmark in November 2007, Ravi taught and researched in various<br />
areas of clinical audiology in Australia, Canada and New Zealand for eight years as an<br />
audiology faculty. His main role is co-ordinating and planning the audiology communication<br />
strategy for Oticon’s premium instruments. Other roles include disseminating<br />
the audiology concepts and the supporting evidence for the technological features in<br />
Oticon instruments in peer-reviewed/trade journals, and at major audiology conferences<br />
and Oticon events around the world.<br />
Ivan Jørgensen<br />
Ivan Jørgensen holds a Master’s degree in Digital Signal Processing (1993) and a Ph.D.<br />
in Analogue Integrated Circuitry (1997). Since joining Oticon in 1997, Ivan has worked<br />
with different aspects of analogue and mixed-mode IC design, ranging from sub-components<br />
to system-level design of chip sets for Oticon hearing aids. For the last seven<br />
years Ivan has been managing the team responsible for analogue and mixed-mode IC<br />
design.<br />
Ivan is a member of the Corps of Examiners at the Technical University of Denmark,<br />
and has acted as an examiner for several Master and PhD projects. He has also published<br />
14 papers in international conferences and journals, and is the holder of five<br />
patents.<br />
Oticon’s Training & Education Team<br />
Training and educational materials developed by this team enable dispensers and<br />
audiologists to reach a profound understanding of how to work with Oticon products,<br />
fitting software and counselling tools to achieve optimal outcomes in their daily work.<br />
Carsten Ahlbom has been working at Oticon A/S since 1975. He was the initiator of<br />
the Oticon Education Department and he is presently a senior trainer responsible for<br />
audiological education within the Oticon organisation as well as with customers. In<br />
1988 he became Assistant Professor for Technical Audiology at Copenhagen University.<br />
In 1996, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Warsaw Technical University<br />
(Poland).<br />
Regitze Willemoës After graduating from Frederiksberg Tekniske Skole in 1996 with<br />
a degree in Audiology, Regitze worked as an audiologist both at Roskilde Hospital<br />
and at the Private Hearing Clinic in Copenhagen. She then joined the Oticon Training<br />
& Education Team in 2003 – a role she sees herself playing ‘until the end of time’. Regitze<br />
is also Manager of the Oticon International Training Academy.<br />
Husmita Ratanjee Having graduated from the University of Cape Town, South Africa<br />
with an Audiology degree, Husmita practiced in public hospitals in South Africa (assessing<br />
and fitting both adult and paediatric patients) before relocating to join Oticon<br />
A/S in February <strong>2010</strong>. As a member of Oticon’s Training & Education Team, Husmita is<br />
responsible for audiological education and training materials.<br />
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