Our History
When SeboTek Hearing Systems launched the PAC Voice-Q hearing instrument in early 2003, it also launched an entirely new era in hearing care—one free from the challenges associated with traditional hearing aids. The first to introduce speaker-in-the-canal hearing instruments, every element of the SeboTek PAC—from its physical design to its advanced features and fitting algorithms—is focused on two primary goals: improving the efficiency and convenience of the fitting process and improving people’s lives by helping them hear.
With more than 500 million people worldwide who have some level of hearing loss, it’s a critically important goal, and one the people at SeboTek know first-hand. That’s because the company's principals—and many people throughout the organization—worked first in dispensing.
The journey began in 1984 when SeboTek's principals, Jim and Mike Feeley, created and began operating a hearing care dispensing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, they developed a deep compassion to help those whose lives are affected with hearing loss. As committed Christians in their personal lives, they began to struggle with the thought of being a Christian on Sunday and a business person during the week. This led them to a life changing decision to bring God in as the head of their company and seek His leadership for all aspects of their lives both professionally and personally. They have discovered since that decision God has always helped them find ways to help others when they seek Him for the answers.
As hearing care professionals, Jim and Mike, along with other SeboTek associates, have experienced first-hand the joy of helping to improve quality of life for people with hearing loss, as well as the sorrow and damage untreated hearing loss can bring to someone's life. Together with their patients, they also have experienced the challenges and frustrations associated with traditional hearing aids—making and remaking plastic shells due to discomfort, occlusion effects, and other fit-related issues.
In an effort to improve the quality and efficiency of their fittings, and to find ways to reach more of the 80% of the hearing impaired who were not seeking treatment, they brought service, repair and manufacturing into their dispensing facility. Jim and Mike also began offering their services on mission trips into third world nations, where they quickly realized that the challenges and frustrations associated with fitting traditional hearing aids in this setting made helping those in need difficult, if not impossible. With millions of people going untreated due to the limitations of traditional hearing aids, their team began to look for a better solution.
Ultimately, they realized that what the industry needed was an all-together new style of hearing instrument that would eliminate the fitting challenges associated with the traditional plastic ear molds that nearly all hearing aids used. It was from these experiences and God given vision that the team, along with other hearing industry veterans, began working on the development of what would become the PAC—the first-ever speaker-in-the-canal device, which was introduced to the industry by SeboTek in early 2003.
Today, speaker-in-the-canal hearing instruments have become the fastest growing product style worldwide.
Simple to fit, service and repair, with the PAC, hearing care professionals have more time for patient care and counseling.
Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, SeboTek Hearing Systems is a privately-held company that manufactures and distributes PAC™ Voice-Q hearing instruments, patented and first-ever modular speaker-in-the-canal hearing instruments worldwide.
