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Songbird Hearing Inc., a new company based near Princeton, New Jersey, presents
the world's first disposable hearing aid. This product launch
helps deliver on Songbird's corporate mission of "Bringing
Better Hearing to the World."
With impressive technological
resources, investor backing, and experienced senior management, Songbird has
the knowledge and support to tap the 23 million hearing-impaired
non-user market.
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Industry
Leader in Technological Advancement
Songbird's technological
expertise extends from the resources of our parent company, the
Sarnoff Corporation. Formerly RCA Laboratories, Sarnoff has been
rated as one of America's four top brain trusts by Fortune
Magazine.
With over 400 Ph.D.
scientists at its Princeton facility, Sarnoff's accomplishments
include the invention of the color television, CMOS technology,
the liquid crystal display (LCD), and High Definition Television (HDTV).
Sarnoff will act as
Songbird's research arm, providing a major technological advantage
unavailable to any other company in the hearing industry.
Songbird's development
has been based on several core principles that will help this
company achieve its mission –
"Bringing Better Hearing
to the World":
- Extensive research
on the market, the consumer, the hearing professional, acoustics,
hearing aid circuitry and fitting.
- A revolutionary
and advanced technology upon which the development of
the world's first disposable hearing aid is based.
- An unrelenting pursuit
of quality in Songbird products and services to both
its professional and consumer customers.
- A company-wide focus
on the hearing impaired non-user, that will carry
through Songbird product offerings and its approach to consumer
and professional marketing both today and into the future.
- A total commitment
to win-win partnerships with the hearing healthcare
professionals who dispense the company's products.
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This partnership will, for the first time, provide the profession
with the ability to reach the vast non-user market, resulting
in substantial practice growth for those that partner with Songbird.
- A management team
firmly aligned with the company's mission and possessing substantial
experience with companies that have led transformational innovation
in other industries.
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Discover the Strong
Songbird
Investment Team
Songbird Hearing Inc.
has received approximately $40 million in venture capital funding
in order to develop and launch its revolutionary new product.
The company is backed by an extremely strong group of investors:
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An industry-transforming
management team leads Songbird along the path to innovation.
Frederick
Fritz, President and CEO
- B.S. in Engineering
from the University of Illinois
- MBA from Harvard
- Marketing management
with Quaker Oats
- General management
experience in:
- Contact lenses
(introduced the "Brown Eyes Blue" contact lens)
- OTC pharmaceuticals
- Podiatric products
with Schering-Plough
Michael H. Tardugno,
Senior Vice President of Operations
- 20 years of experience
in pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing
- Developed and implemented
strategy for high-speed automation enabling Bausch & Lomb
to compete in the burgeoning disposable contact lens market
Thomas J. Squeglia,
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
- 16 years of experience
at Johnson & Johnson
- Key member in developing
the disposable contact lens product line that revolutionized
the industry
- Held several senior
sales and marketing positions in the U.S. and abroad
E. Ronald Goldfuss,
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
- MBA from The Wharton
School of Business
- CPA with Arthur
Andersen & Co.
- Operations-oriented
financial executive with experience in medical devices, high
tech, and health sciences industries
- Extensive experience
managing IPO process
Dr. David
A. Preves, Vice President of Research & Development
- 30 years of hearing
aid R&D and engineering experience
- M.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Illinois
- Ph.D. in Biomedical
Engineering from the University of Minnesota
- Extensive industry
experience:
- Maico
- Starkey
- Argosy
- Micro-Tech
- Executive Committee
of the American Auditory Society
- ANSI measurements
chairperson
- Reviewer for several
technical journals
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