Hello and welcome to Neurotone. Our company is committed to building quality media enhancement and auditory rehabilitation solutions for people suffering from hearing loss. Neurotone is staffed by experts in technology development and audiological training disciplines. This collection of unique and varied experience allows us to create and deliver solutions that improve the lives of those who are hard of hearing.

Executive Staff

Gerry Kearby – CEO

Mr. Kearby was the co-founder and CEO of a number of Silicon Valley professional and consumer audio companies. His pioneering work in digital audio workstations included contributing to the LucasFilm SoundDroid and developing the Studer Dyaxis system. He co-founded Liquid Audio, (now Liquid Digital Media) one of the first secure music distribution infrastructure companies, and has testified before Congress on digital rights issues. Mr. Kearby also received the 2000 Software Developers Forum Visionary Award. He brings over 25 years of technology management experience to Neurotone.

Earl Levine Ph.D. – VP Engineering

Dr. Levine has worked with technology companies including Sony, Liquid Audio (where he was Chief Scientist), Vxtreme (acquired by Microsoft), Quantum, Ricoh, and numerous startups in the areas of signal processing, cross-platform and client-server software, embedded Linux, wireless and networking. He is an inventor on a dozen patents covering audio and video signal processing and compression technology. He earned a B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in Electrical Engineering.

Rob Modeste – VP Hardware Development

Mr. Modeste was a co-founder of and consumer device specialist at Liquid Audio. He has been designing hardware systems at Silicon Valley companies including Apple, SGI, National Semiconductor, Studer, and Biomation since 1978. He was the head of the design team that created the Studer Dyaxis, the first commercially successful digital audio workstation and the first system with fully programmable digital audio interfaces. At Apple he did audio and systems design for the Pippin project. Mr. Modeste is an expert in off-the-shelf prototyping methods, and has never encountered a broken circuit he couldn’t fix.

Robert W. Sweetow, Ph.D. – Professor of Otolaryngology – Co-Developer of LACE – Consultant

Dr. Robert Sweetow is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of California, San Francisco and was the Director of Audiology at the UCSF Medical Center Audiology Clinic from 1991-2011. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1977, Master of Arts from the University of Southern California and Bachelor of Science from the University of Iowa. Dr. Sweetow has written 25 textbook chapters and over 100 scientific articles on counseling, tinnitus, auditory rehabilitation, and amplification. He is a reviewer for several scientific journals, and the author of Counseling for Hearing Aid Fittings. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Audiology.

Jennifer Henderson Sabes – Research Audiologist – Co-Developer of LACE – Consultant

Jennifer Henderson Sabes is a research audiologist at the UCSF Audiology Clinic. Her research involves many topics in the field of hearing and communication, with an emphasis on rehabilitation, auditory training and plasticity. She has worked in audiology and hearing research institutions since 1995.
Henderson Sabes has published many book chapters and articles in scientific journals. A fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, she is licensed by the state of California and holds certification in audiology from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Hank Barry – Director

Mr. Barry represents technology companies at all stages of development and in all industries, with a particular focus on intellectual property, commercial strategy and venture capital. For the last 20 years, he has worked with early stage companies as lawyer, investor and director, including seven companies in which he was involved from formation through IPO.

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