Overview
Amanda Philpott is the founder and chief executive of eargym, which she started in May 2020. She is based in the United Kingdom. From September 2019 to June 2020 she founded a company at ZINC.
Philpott spent much of her career in the NHS. From January 1991 to January 2004 she held various NHS management roles in hospitals and in primary and community care settings, and from January 2004 to September 2008 she was executive director of strategy. After a year as managing director of Quance Cormack Limited, she returned to the NHS in September 2009, serving successively as deputy chief executive, chief executive, managing director, executive director of strategy and provider development, and, from October 2012 until April 2019, chief officer. She was also an elected board member of NHS Clinical Commissioners from January 2014 to April 2019.
She studied psychology and sociology at Oxford Brookes University and took an MBA at the School of Business and Law, University of Brighton.
Career history
In the news
- Absolutely delighted to see our Business Manager, Charlotte Olley and our current industrial placement student Elliott Timms representing eargym | B Corp so well at the Alzheimer's Society Annual Conference today. Charlotte has firmly established herself as a key member of the core team since she first joined us on her own industrial placement from Bath Business School a couple of years ago, and Elliott is with us for a year on placement from Loughborough University. Both have fantastic energy, work ethic and integrity. I’m really
- We are delighted to announce that our CEO, Amanda Philpott, will be in Hong Kong to explore new partnerships and investment opportunities in the region. So... If you're based in Hong Kong and would value a face-to-face conversation, please feel free to send us a DM - we'd love to connect. 📍 Hong Kong, September 17th
- Preparing to travel to China this weekend on behalf of eargym | B Corp to meet potential partners who may enable us to support the hearing health of 'the new silver generation', achieve regulatory approval, and contribute to the delivery of China’s 15th five year plan. Great to be in the company of the five other selected companies: Good Boost, GLITCHERS, Sensate, LendoCare, and SlowShopping. I'm already learning so much about a country where 323M people are aged over 60 (roughly 5x the total population of England and Wales) and
- We really value the working relationships that eargym | B Corp is developing with American partners. We're finding that the U.S. has a focus on prevention — especially the importance of early intervention in dementia — that is very different from the focus in the U.K. They really understand the need to get in early and establish some population-wide health measures for effective prevention. Wanting to support the NHS is part of my DNA, but the mindset that seeks not to celebrate great plans but to actually engage and deliver
- Good to see growing awareness of the modifiable risk factors for dementia, including unaddressed hearing loss, being raised by the Alzheimer's Society in the mainstream media. Thank you Michelle Dyson CB
- Very excited to be on the AARP stand for HLTH USA 2026, the #1 healthcare innovation event, Nov. 15-18 in Las Vegas. Join me: https://lnkd.in/eXCivYhf #HLTHUSA
- Very excited to be on the @AARP stand for HLTH USA 2026, the #1 healthcare innovation event, Nov. 15-18 in Las Vegas. Join me: https://lnkd.in/eXCivYhf #HLTHUSA
- A really fascinating, short article by Alain Collinet contributing yet more insight into the vital importance for healthy ageing of rich and socially active lives, and music, all better enabled by proactive hearing health. If healthy ageing is an area of interest for you, it's definitely worth 5 mins of your time to read. eargym | B Corp enables people to monitor and manage their own hearing through longitudinal medical grade speech-in-noise hearing checks, delivered via their own headphones and hearing tech. Our User-Led Design
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