• Barbara Wachsman brings decades experience, including 12 years as Director of Strategy & Engagement for Enterprise Benefits at the Walt Disney Company to Tuned.  
  • Randy Forman is a leading advisor to digital health companies with a successful track record in growing commercial telehealth companies, including Livongo.  
  • The addition of Barbara Wachsman and Randy Forman adds to the Advisory Board for Tuned, which includes leading experts and respected leaders in audiology, healthcare and technology.  
  • Tuned provides comprehensive hearing health care to employer groups, making great hearing care as accessible as medical, dental, vision, and mental healthcare.

New York, February 21, 2023.  Tuned is the first solution designed to bring hearing health to everyone, a mission that continues to gather pace with the appointment of Barbara Wachsman and Randy Forman to the Advisory Board.  

Ms Wachsman spent over 12 years as the Director of Strategy & Engagement for Enterprise Benefits at the Walt Disney Company, where she was responsible for designing a benefits program to address Disney’s long-term healthcare needs.This included responsibility for the largest value-and-primary-care based ‘direct control deal’ in the United States and was the creator of the Strategy Lab, the home for innovation in healthcare delivery at Disney.

Vastly experienced, Ms Wachsman currently serves as a Senior Advisor to a $8 billion growth-buyout private equity firm specializing in healthcare, and is also a partner in an early-stage healthcare financing and advisory fund.  Ms Wachsman is the past Chair of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), one of the most established employer coalitions of large employers in the US, Past Chair of the Employer Advisory Board at Kaiser, and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS).  She holds Master of Public Health and Master of City and Regional Planning/Architecture degrees from the University of California, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Scripps College.  

“Tuned has developed the first solution which meets the needs of employers and employees alike, doing so in a transparent way which offers incredible value to every party involved” says Barbara Wachsman.  “This is a benefit of the future for many Americans and I’m really excited to help them on their journey.  I believe that in a few short years, Tuned will have revolutionized hearing care, making it a staple employee benefit and will help preserve and improve hearing for the 50 million Americans who need their help.”

Randy Forman was most recently the Chief Commercial Officer at Path Mental Health. Prior to Path, Randy was the Vice President of Government and Labor at Livongo (acquired by Teladoc) and led their commercial efforts focused on expanding Livongo’s presence in the public and labor sector.  He was the first commercial employee at Livongo and held a variety of commercial leadership positions as Livongo grew, went public, and then merged with Teladoc. Randy is also an investor and commercial advisor for several digital health companies  He has spent most of his career helping to build digital health companies looking to bend the cost curve in the healthcare system, improve care, while also reshaping the physician, patient/member experience. Randy holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two daughters.

“I’ve spent my career in the digital health space and there are few examples of companies as exciting as Tuned” says Randy.  “What they’re doing is nothing short of revolutionary in hearing health and the model they’ve developed is going to make a difference to the lives of so many people.  It’s a perfect example of using technology to solve a problem and they’ve built a world class digital infrastructure that makes it easy and beneficial to everyone.  I’m excited to play a part and help make a difference”

The additions of Barbara Wachsman & Randy Forman to the advisory Board comes after a successful 2022 which saw Tuned announce major partnerships with MusiCares and Soundly, win the Rising Star Award (Employer Prevention & Wellness category) at the 4th Annual UCSF Health Hub Digital Health Awards and the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable (EHIR) pitch competition, as well as recognition by the Hearing Technology Innovator Awards™ for outstanding telehealth service delivery. 

“We’re excited to benefit from the incredible experience of Barbara and Randy” says Danny Aronson, CEO and co-founder of Tuned. “To change hearing care and bring an employee benefit that is so badly needed by so many, we are fortunate and grateful for the guidance of individuals of their caliber.  We’re rebuilding hearing health for the modern world to make a real difference, and we know Barbara and Randy are certainly going to help us with our mission”.  

Tuned expands the current employer-sponsored benefit landscape with the first hearing solution built for use by every employee.  Tuned’s mission is to make hearing care as accessible as medical, dental, vision, and mental healthcare. Employers that use Tuned take a preventative, holistic approach to hearing care complete with transparent pricing models and enrollment support. 

Tuned has over 200 qualified and credentialed audiologists, connecting them to patients via an easy-to-use clinically validated platform. Tuned audiologists can accurately screen patients’ hearing online and the Tuned 360 Hearing Profile is the most advanced hearing screening available online, offering an affordable, convenient and accessible solution to the millions of Americans that need it.