Our whole team is highly motivated to make a difference by improving the world’s hearing and helping people live well for longer.
eargym was founded by Amanda Philpott in May 2020, alongside original co-founder Andy Shanks. Drawing from their personal experiences with unaddressed hearing loss and its impact on our long-term emotional and cognitive well-being, they set out to create solutions for those affected.
As eargym's Founder & CEO, Amanda brings extensive senior leadership and operational experience from multiple fields, including the NHS, population health & care sector, and business development. A lifelong learner fascinated by how people and organisations work, she is also an accredited mediator and executive coach.
Amanda wears Behind-The-Ear (BTE) Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids and uses eargym’s auditory training to get the best out of her assistive listening tech.
"I am an ex-NHS CEO and population health strategy specialist. I co-founded eargym with Andy because I have experienced first-hand the impact of unaddressed hearing loss in my family. My happy place is in the mountains, and hearing nature with greater clarity really matters to me."
Founder & CEO
Find out more and connect with Amanda Philpott.
Meet the team
I am a life-long technologist who started as a software engineer in investment banking. I lead on commercialising eargym's range of digital hearing health products and services and leading on eargym's exciting AI growth plans.
Dr Tim Green
Hearing Scientist
I have more than 20 years experience of conducting research into understanding and dealing with the consequences of hearing impairment and am excited by eargym's potential to improve hearing health and to advance research.
eargym provides the opportunity to enhance auditory rehabilitation for individuals with hearing loss while also contributing to a valuable area of research. Outside of work, I love to take my dog on nice country walks in the Yorkshire Dales.
As a PhD student with a focus on computational neuroscience, I’m passionate about harnessing data to drive meaningful insights. I’m excited to apply my love for data analysis and programming to support auditory health and find new ways to make digital healthcare more impactful.
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Knowing that I'm part of a team truly transforming lives is incredibly motivating, and I'm eager to apply my marketing skills to help scale that impact. When I'm not working at eargym, I love playing tennis, catching the latest films, and coaching artistic roller skating to the next generation.
I’m motivated by the challenge to bring hearing training games to the masses with fun and engaging design that’s focused on immersive audio. To unwind, I play a range of computer games and like to go bouldering.
Having close relatives affected by dementia, I admire eargym's mission and I look forward to contributing to eargym’s work during my industrial placement. Outside of university, I enjoy anything creative, travelling, and skiing.
I love my job as a developer and having the opportunity to create apps that can help improve lives for the better; eargym is my favourite project that I’ve worked on. In my free time I play the guitar, play sports, and spend a lot of time outdoors.
I work to build the eargym app with Perpetio and the product team. Outside of work, I like to play volleyball and the guitar and enjoy listening to music.
Our advisors
We work with a board of world-class advisors across hearing, cognition, population health, game design and data analysis to discover just how beneficial hearing training can be at helping people live well for longer.
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