Eriksholm Summer Camp, 18-22 August 2010

CVs Speakers
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Saturday’s
exhibitions
Sille Ørnberg
Sille has a degree in Export Engineering and her background spans from technical insight
over languages to global marketing management. She joined Oticon in 2000 as
part of the marketing team, and quickly became responsible for the Otikids program.
Since then Sille has worked within the paediatric group, helping to build Oticon’s
paediatric profile.
Sille is now part of Oticon’s Paediatric Marketing Management group. Two years ago
she became responsible for the paediatric communication group, whose members
focus on marketing Oticon solutions and finding ways to support children, their parents
and the professionals who work to help them.
Anton Hedström, Oticon Medical
After completing an MSc in Technical Product and Production Development at Halmstad
University in 2005, Anton Hedström became one of the first co-workers to join
the team that developed Ponto, the bone anchored hearing system by Oticon Medical.
Having worked with the project before it was taken over by Oticon, Anton was
one of four employees to follow it to Oticon in 2006.
In 2009, just before the Ponto System was launched, Anton joined the marketing
team as Technical Product Manager for the Ponto system. In this position, Anton
gets to combine his own extensive technical skills and experience with a growing
knowledge about the experiences and needs of users, in order to further improve the
Ponto System.
Heidi Kofod, Oticon Medical
Heidi holds a Master’s degree in Speech & Hearing Sciences from the University of
Copenhagen. Prior to her employment at Oticon, Heidi worked as an audiologist at a
public hospital, fitting hearing aids and FM systems on children and adults with profound
hearing losses. Counselling of both parents and other professionals supporting
hearing impaired children also played a major role in her daily work.
Heidi joined Oticon in 2008 as a clinical audiologist within paediatrics and FM. She
moved to Oticon Medical in the summer of 2010. Her experience with clinical disciplines
such as writing test protocols, feature specifications, identifying and recruiting
test subjects and other test management tasks is being put to good use in Oticon
Medical, where she acts as the link between the end user and various development
engineers.
Heidi’s keen interest in the technical and psychological aspects of designing hearing
aids for people with special needs, and her solid background in conventional hearing
aid development, combine to form an excellent foundation for future contributions to
the development of Oticon Medical products.
Maria Løye Samsson, Interacoustics
Maria Løye Samsson has a Master’s degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences from
University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She began her career in GN ReSound as a research
audiologist, and currently works as an Audiological Consultant with Interacoustics
A/S, where her main focus is on hearing aid fitting and verification. In order
to strengthen the partnership between Oticon and Interacoustics, Maria moves between
different departments at Oticon’s headquarters.
Pernille K. Lindhardt, Phonic Ear
Pernille has been with Phonic Ear since 2004 where she started as a sales coordinator.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Management and is part of the
Phonic Ear’s international sales team. In addition to her involvement in customer
training Heidi plays a support role at exhibitions and the role of host to customers
visiting the Phonic Ear office. She also works closely with the marketing team to plan
campaigns and exhibitions.
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