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Kevin Semcken, Chairman
and CEO
Kevin Semcken is the Chairman and CEO of
Able Planet Inc. Over the past 25 years, Mr. Semcken has led the
development and commercialization of a wide variety of new technologies,
many of which have become the standard of care, worldwide.Prior to joining
the Company, he was President & CEO of HealthTek Ventures, a health
care technology development company that restricts funding to early
stage ventures that can be actively managed by Mr. Semcken, and
his team. He has served on the board of several start-ups and
has led a number of companies to substantial investor exits.
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Beginning
his career in Sales and Marketing in 1981, Mr. Semcken has a history of
success in companies ranging from $B market leaders to early stage medical
ventures. Since founding HealthTek Ventures in 1994, Mr. Semcken has served
as President & CEO of Genesis Medical Interventional, President &
COO of Medical Dynamics, Executive Vice President of San Francisco Science,
President of UltraGuide Inc., and Vice President of Sales and Marketing
for NeoVision Corporation. In addition, Mr. Semcken has consulted for
numerous healthcare companies, including Creos Corporation, Nexcura, US
Medical Corporation, MedDetect Corporation (Lockheed Martin), and US Surgical
Corporation (TYCO), and he is an advisor to CTEK, a Colorado Technology
Incubator.
Prior to establishing HealthTek Ventures,
Mr. Semcken served as Vice President Sales & Marketing for Fischer
Imaging Corporation where he turned around company sales leading to a
successful IPO.
Mr. Semcken has an M.B.A. from Loyola University
in Chicago. |
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PRNews:
Able
Planet Brings On Wealth of Auditory Expertise |
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Dr.
Christopher Schweitzer, Chief Audiology Officer
Dr. Christopher Schweitzer received his Ph.D.
in Auditory Sciences from the University of Maryland. In addition to a
long career in hearing aid research and graduate level teaching, he has
extensive experience in the hearing aid industry. This includes serving
as Chief of Audiology and co-founder of Audiologic, Inc of Boulder which
developed one of the first commercial digital hearing aid systems. |
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He
served on the American National Standards Institute committee on hearing
aids, and is past Chairman of the Probe Microphone committee. A previously
elected Member of the Executive Board of the American Auditory Society,
Dr. Schweitzer has published and lectured extensively in areas of amplification
and rehabilitation. He continues to serve as Chairman and Senior Audiologist
for the Family Hearing Centers of Colorado. |
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Kiva
Allgood , VP of Marketing
Before heading up Marketing for Able Planet,
Kiva spent over twelve years in the consumer products industry with GE
and Motorola. Most recently she was the Senior Director of Sales for Motorola’s
North America Mobile Devices Business. Prior to that Kiva was the Director
of Global Product Marketing, as well as the Director of Operations for
the CDMA Product Development group. |
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She
also served as the Mobile Devices champion for the launch of Six Sigma
for Product Development.
Prior to joining Motorola, Kiva held several leadership roles within GE
Consumer Products. Most notably as a certified Master Black Belt, head
of Global Web Marketing and as a Product Manager.
Kiva holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication
Studies from Northwestern University and an MBA from Kellogg. She lives
in Denver with her husband Dwight and two young sons. She is an avid skier
and loves to read. |
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Desmond
Smith, Director, Digital Signal Processing
Desmond Smith is an electronics engineer
who began his career with the South African Broadcasting Corporation before
becoming interested in hearing aids. He has more than 50 years experience
in the hearing aid industry and has served on working groups of the South
African Bureau of Standards, IEC and ANSI. |
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He
is a past president and Fellow of the S.A. Soc. of Hearing Aid Acousticians,
has served on the council of the S. A. Acoustics Institute and various
committees of the Health Professionals Council of South Africa.
Desmond has traveled extensively and lectured
in Europe and the USA. He presently practices as a Hearing Aid Acoustician
and is CEO of Acoustimed (Pty) Ltd. which he founded in 1976. He was responsible
for the design and manufacture of the first commercially available probe
microphone systems using complex test signals. |
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