Echo Hear was founded by a practicing ENT clinician and an engineer who has spent a career building systems that cannot fail. Built from the inside out.
Lior Oren Averbukh is an electrical engineer who spent the last decade in deep-tech environments — where reliability is a requirement, not a feature. Former Group Leader, IDF Elite Unit Matzov. B.Sc. EE | International MBA.He co-founded Echo Hear because his father’s hearing loss made the broken system personal. Watching someone struggle not just with hearing loss, but with the months-long wait to even get diagnosed — in a system that lacks the infrastructure to meet basic demand — turned an engineering observation into a founding decision.
Most medical AI companies find a physician willing to put their name on the product. Echo Hear’s CMO built the product. Dr. Oren Ziv is a practicing ENT Specialist with more than a decade in the field. He serves as the Head of ENT at Clalit Health Services South and Head of ENT of the IDF. MD | MBA. He co-founded Echo Hear because he lived the problem — watching patients wait months for a diagnostic test that takes 45 minutes, in a booth that costs $50K, requiring a specialist who isn’t there. When a hospital asks whether this is clinically sound, the answer is: the clinician who designed it still sees patients every week.
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PhD Clinical Audiologist, Idaho State University. US-based. Owns Echo Hear’s test flow design, masking logic, and failure-mode mapping. The clinical authority behind the diagnostic protocol — ensuring that what the AI runs is what an audiologist would run.
Clinical calibration specialist in audiology. Deep hands-on expertise in transducers, acoustic measurement, drift control, and real-world diagnostic reliability. Ensures Echo Hear’s hardware and test protocol meet the precision standards required for clinical-grade certification.
Ugo served as CFO of Amplifon — the world’s largest hearing-care retailer — for a decade (2007–2017), bringing deep financial and operational insight into how the global hearing-care industry scales. He now advises Echo Hear, lending his experience in building sustainable, high-growth healthcare businesses.