Management
Jeffrey Szmanda, HIS
President
Each Ear, LLC
Hearing Aid Advocate
Jeff is president and founder of Each Ear, LLC, and inventor of the internationally-patented and award-winning Gruv Button™ and the Gruv Button™ Retrofit. Prior to founding Each Ear, LLC, he amassed more than 30 years of experience in venture development and entrepreneurial management. Jeff is a winner of the first place award in the State of Wisconsin’s Governor’s New Product Award Competition and a prestigious technical design award from Johns Hopkins University.
Gruv Button™ has been awarded the 2022 Today's Caregiver Friendly Award.
Gruv Button™ Retrofit has been awarded the global 2024 Hearing Technology Innovator Award.
While practicing as a Hearing Care Professional and fitting hearing aids since 2009, he developed Educational Discussion Events, a community outreach program covering six consumer-relatable hearing loss topics. For his dedication to hearing aid users, in 2021 he received the Acta Non Verba Award ("Actions Not Words"), presented for Performance Excellence from Elite Hearing Centers of America.
Jeff helped create Basic Hearing Aid Training for Caregivers™ to help family and facility caregivers understand hearing aid utilization and care.
Jeff also launched Hearing Test Prep™, an easy-to-use consumer website to help potential hearing aid users prepare for their first hearing test and perceive a "Feeling of Partnership" with their Hearing Care Professional.
Contact Jeff directly: Jeff@EachEar.com
Peter Acly
Director of Communications
Each Ear, LLC
Veteran and Veteran Advocate
Revisiting the Dai Do battlefield, Vietnam
March 2024
Peter Acly has 51 years experience in Marketing/Public Relations in the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors. A veteran of stints at General Foods Corp., Maxwell House Coffee, Miller Brewing Co., and the Environmental Protection Agency HQ in Washington, he specializes in communicating about Consumer, Health, Safety, Ergonomic and Environmental issues and innovations. He joined Each Ear in 2022.
Peter served in the Marine Corps from 1967-71. He participated in the Battle of Dai Do in 1968, receiving the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for actions that resulted in “forcing the enemy to break contact.” He suffers (mostly good-naturedly) from “artillery ears,” and recalls that he often used to have difficulty inserting his hearing aids!
John Wallace
Graphic Communications Artist
Each Ear, LLC
USMC Veteran
With 43 years of experience, John’s expertise spans all aspects of Graphic Design and Technical Illustration. In 1981, John began his career serving as graphic artist for the commanding general at 7th Marine Amphibious Brigade in 29 Palms, California.
In 1988, he started his own business providing technical, operating, safety and parts manuals for high end construction equipment and machinery manufacturers. He also provided design and layout artwork for commercial and non-profit magazines, newsletters and brochures.
Each Ear, LLC is proud to work with John as he graphically presents the functionality and benefits of Gruv Button™ and Gruv Button™ Retrofit, so that it is easily understood by hearing aid users, caregivers, hearing care professionals, and the hearing aid manufacturers.