榜单｜2022年25位顶尖女高管Top25WomenLeadersinMedicalDevices｜人物(17)

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Victoria E. Carr-Brendel,
Advanced Bionics at Sonova

Title: Group Vice President of Cochlear Implants, President of Advanced Bionics
Victoria Carr-Brendel is the Group Vice President of Cochlear Implants and President of Advanced Bionics at Sonova, and a member of the Sonova management board. Advanced Bionics is widely recognized for developing the most advanced cochlear implant systems in the world. Under Carr-Brendel’s leadership, it has seen unprecedented growth and introduced a number of first-to-market products, including the first CI sound processors to connect to virtually any Bluetooth-enabled device and the first CI solution designed for children.
Carr-Brendel has almost 30 years of medical device development experience, having served in multiple leadership roles in different medical device companies prior to joining Sonova. She was keynote speaker at Sonova’s 2019 International Women’s Day, and at MiniTec during the 2021 Medical Device & Manufacturing Expo & Conference. She was named one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Medical Devices in 2020, a finalist for LA Times Woman of the Year in 2021, and voted one of the Top 25 Medical Device Executives of 2019. She recently joined the board of directors for the Medical Device Manufacturing Association, and has been a member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering since 2014. Carr-Brendel holds a Ph.D. in immunology/microbiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.