Elaine Saunders

Elaine Saunders is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Blamey & Saunders Hearing Pty Ltd a profit-for purpose telehealth company. In her 40 year career, Elaine has been an advocate for people with hearing loss and aimed to reduce the barriers to quality hearing care and hearing aids. Elaine has a Master in Clinical Audiology from the University of Manchester and a PhD from the University of Southampton. She is a former member of the cochlear research team of Professor Graeme Clark; an outcome of this research was her co-founding of spin-off company Dynamic Hearing Pty Ltd (now part of Cirrus Logic), of which Elaine was CEO for 8 years. Elaine’s awards include the American Academy of Audiology’s Samuel F. Lybarger Award for Achievements in Industry and the Australia Academy of Technology and Engineering’s Clunies Ross Medal for Entrepreneur of the Year. Elaine is an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University and Chair of its Innovation Precinct Advisory Board. She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF), the Australian Innovation Research Group (AIRG), and the National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation (NFMRI).