Todd Murray
President

As the President of ReSound North America, Todd Murray is focused on developing the infrastructure needed to drive ReSound’s position within the North American market and provide both top products and service to the hearing healthcare industry. 

Todd joined the ReSound family in February 2004 as the President of Beltone North America, which expanded to global brand responsibility in 2007.  He brings a strong background in retail, healthcare and national operations to ReSound. He has over nine years of experience in the optical industry at Cole National Corporation, with a focus on Business Development, Acquisitions and leading Pearle Vision Operations.

Prior to Cole National Corporation, Todd spent several years with Deloitte and Touche in their management consulting practice, and at IBM, where he focused on the Retail and Consumer Product Practice groups.   

Todd has a BA from Brown University and an MBA from the Fugua School at Duke University. 

Rich Swanson
Chief Operating Officer

As the Chief Operating Officer of ReSound, Rich Swanson manages all financial activities including financial planning, strategic investment, and accounting.  Rich also oversees the US Quality department to ensure FDA and ISO compliance.

Rich joined ReSound in 2002 as the Vice President of Finance.  He previously worked for the DSS division of Imation, a provider of data storage products.  He was responsible for U.S. sales and marketing, selling outsourced solutions for field service, help desk and logistics.  He started at Imation as the Worldwide Controller, after having previously held several similar controller/accounting positions at other businesses.

Rich holds a MBA from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.  He earned bachelor’s degrees  in Accounting and Computer Science from the University of Saint Thomas (Minnesota).  Rich is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Keith Lewis
Vice President, Business Development

Keith Lewis is the Vice President of Business Development for ReSound. He brings a strong background in marketing, strategic planning and commercial operations development to ReSound.

Prior to his position with ReSound, Keith served as the Director of Marketing for Bausch and Lomb's US Contact Lens Division and ran the company’s Worldwide Olympic Sponsorship. He held vice president positions for Ray Ban, Global Vision Care, and North American Vision Care.

Keith has been a guest lecturer on Customer Relationship Management, Web Based Strategies, and Brand Development.  He has served as chairman of the Marketing Committee for the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, during which he established commercial strategies to drive a more youthful membership.

Keith received a MBA from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and earned his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University.

Kevin Mensink
Vice President, Marketing

Kevin Mensink was named Vice President of Marketing in 2007.  He is responsible for delivering clear communication to hearing healthcare professionals about the benefits of ReSound products, as well as providing tools and resources to assist hearing healthcare professionals communicate product benefits to the end-user.  Kevin is committed to making ReSound the company that best partners with hearing healthcare professionals to achieve their long-term objectives.

Prior to joining ReSound in 2005, Kevin held a variety of marketing and financial positions at the Thomson Corporation. 

Kevin holds a MBA and bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Accounting from the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota).

Brian Tsuchiya
Vice President, Operations

Brian Tsuchiya is the Vice President of Operations for ReSound.  He is responsible for defining strategies and cross-functional initiatives that will increase ReSound’s custom hearing instrument market share.

Prior to joining ReSound in 2005, Brian was the director for the Minneapolis-St. Paul operation of Mesaba Aviation.  He was responsible for developing and maintaining a safe operation for over 400 employees while leading the daily coordination of multiple operating groups including pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, operations control, and ground operations.  He achieved industry-leading safety and operational performance, and successfully led the only union-free operating group in the company.  Brian earlier worked at Metro Machine & Engineering, a firm that engineers, fabricates, and integrates large scale capital equipment for the medical industry.  Brian worked in business development and was responsible for negotiating partnerships and sales channel relationships.

Similar positions prior to these combine for 10 years of achieving growth through streamlined operations, cost effectiveness, and successful operational benchmarking while leading engineering, operations, and business development functions.

Brian earned his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Tom Woods
Vice President, Sales

Tom Woods joined ReSound in 2007 as the Vice President of Sales.  His career in healthcare industry sales and resolute course of achieving goals steadily drive market share for ReSound.  Since joining ReSound, Tom has strengthened the sales organization through acquisition of sales talent, implementation of strategic sales processes, and development of personnel. 

The majority of Tom’s experience comes from medical device company C.R. Bard Inc.  He held a variety of positions in both sales and product marketing, and most recently was responsible for a 120-member divisional sales organization including sales, sales management, training and support.  He focused not only on growing revenue, but also on recruiting and developing talented sales professionals comprising his team.

Tom earned a bachelor’s in Business Administration from The Ohio State University.