Audra Renyi
Executive Director
Audra brings experience from the private sector and the non-profit world. In the private sector, Audra has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street. On the non-profit side, Audra has worked with Doctors Without Borders running the finances and human resources for a refugee hospital in Chad, served as the CFO of One Acre Fund in Rwanda, a non-profit agricultural organization, and acted as Business Consultant for a microfinance organization in Kenya and worked as Director of Development at Canada World Youth. Ms. Renyi holds bachelor’s degrees in economics (Wharton School) and international studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and has completed an executive leadership program at Harvard Business School. She was named Wharton Top 40 under 40, recognized as the Young International Leader of Quebec by ARISTA, named a Rising Talent by the Women’s Forum, and received the Governor General of Canada's Innovation Award.
Patricia Duchesneau
Project Manager Canada
Patricia has a degree in International relations and International law from UQAM in Montreal and has more than a decade of experience in project management in a diverse range of domains, working mainly with the youth, women and people with different abilities. In 2012, her love of the wilderness led her to move to the Canadian North, where she lived for six years. During that time, she worked as a consultant on multiple projects related to Northern matters, including the three Territories and Nunavik. Because of her background, Patricia is the WWH's Project Manager for the Indigenous Hearing Health Initiative. She works in close collaboration with audiologists and different Canadian Indigenous communities to develop hearing health care systems that reflect the reality and the needs of each community.
Anton Günther
Technical Project Manager
Anton is the technical lead for World Wide Hearing’s technology projects, such as remote audiology systems, and is in charge of evaluating and deploying smart devices for remote hearing screenings. He is a sound engineering specialist with extensive experience in the design of audio devices and the development of sound processing algorithms. Prior to World Wide Hearing, he worked for Sonovax Europe as a car audio engineer and for TWO PI Signal Processing Applications as a hearing aid engineer. Anton holds a master’s degree in acoustics from Aalborg University (Denmark), a pre-master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Dresden University of Technology (Germany), and is certified as an audiology assistant.
Tamim Zaraina
Accountant
Tamim is responsible for World Wide Hearing’s finances. He manages the complete accounting cycle, cash flow, and budgets, payroll and expenses, completes audits, and prepares financial statements. Prior to joining World Wide Hearing, Tamim was a founding partner of SCIC CPA Inc., an accounting services firm. Tamim has a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (Canada).
