As the President and CEO of Starkey, I am focused on expanding our role as a global leader in advanced hearing technology. We build it. I started working in Starkey’s hearing aid repair department more than 30 years ago and now lead our team of more than 5,000 people around the world with facilities in over 29 countries. I have worked in virtually every corner of the business, learning each aspect of the hearing industry, including what patients and hearing professionals expect from the technology we create. At Starkey, our purpose is to build caring products that connect people through better hearing. It all starts with caring and has a ripple effect. If you know your products will change the world one person at a time, you will take the care to craft each device. If you know every customer touchpoint connects another person to the world around them, you will deliver second-to-none customer service. From the technology we develop to the trust we build with hearing professionals around the world, caring is at the core. This is the only way to do business. For nearly 60 years, Starkey has led the industry by challenging conventions, pushing boundaries and introducing innovations that redefine what's possible. Most recently, Starkey announced its most advanced hearing technology family ever, Omega AI+, that takes intelligent hearing technology to the next level. From industry-leading sound quality powered by Starkey's proprietary Quad DNN Architecture and revolutionary G4 Gen AI Neuro Processor to industry-only wellness and connectivity capabilities, including industry-only Sleep Quality Tracking (U.S. only), Omega AI+ is providing superhuman hearing that's more efficient and more powerful than ever before. Starkey continues to set the speed of innovation in hearing technology. I believe in the power of kindness. Through Starkey’s corporate social responsibility program, Starkey Cares, our team has partnered with more than 2,500 hearing health professionals around the nation to get hearing technology to people in need. The future does not belong to those who look back. It belongs to those who create what’s next.
