Pat Fournier is the President of The Hearing Place and has been servicing the hearing aid community since 1988. He has BC-HIS Board Certification in Hearing Instrument Sciences and is a member of the Acoustical Society of America. He has helped thousands of people with their hearing aid instruments over the past 20 years, and he is sincerely inspired by his clientele. He has been President of the Montana Hearing Society for the past 6 years, and he is very active at the state level in certification issues, to protect consumers and validate practitioners. He enjoys Angel’s baseball games and fishing the rivers around the state.

Walt Hopkins joined The Hearing Place in 2010 and has been testing hearing and fitting/dispensing hearing instruments since 1981. He also has been a Clinically Certified Hypnotherapist for over 14 years. Clinical hypnotherapy has recently been successfully applied to help hearing-impaired patients that suffer from tinnitus (ringing in the ears).  He enjoys whitewater kayaking, fishing, good food, and reading about and discussing philosophy and psychology.