About Lios
Lios, formerly Restored Hearing, was founded in 2009 by Rhona Togher and Eimear O’Carroll. Over a decade, the business has grown to foster a spirit of innovation and a passion for developing real world solutions for acoustic problems. The team has expanded to include experts in material science, acoustics, licensing, design, and predictive modelling.
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Founders
Fascinated by sound, noise, and its impact on society, co-founders Rhona Togher & Eimear O’Carroll have worked together for over 15 years. Inventive by nature, they founded Lios (formerly Restored Hearing) in 2009 to build technologies which would enable a quieter world. Togher and O’Carroll have long been frustrated with the pace of advancements in their field, witnessing incremental developments which fell short in delivering meaningful change.
Originally trained as physicists, the pair have applied their knowledge of physics to a range of challenges, creating elegant and practical solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges.
Both founders suffered from tinnitus at a young age, which led them to investigate the condition and develop their first product, SoundRelief – a tinnitus sound therapy.
Building on this successful experience of bringing a new product to market, they invented SoundBounce; filing patents and securing funding to advance the technology from concept to prototype product. Since then, the business has grown through successful customer pilots, commercial and technical partnerships, greater investment, and an expanded team of passionate experts.