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Mike Orscheln’s business passion is aligning strategy, culture and leadership around growth initiatives that will deliver enterprise value creation.  His experiences over multiple roles and years, have placed him in leadership positions in organizations with mandates to accelerate growth organically and identify opportunities to expand more rapidly through future strategic acquisitions. With 40 years of experience in medical device distribution and manufacturing, he has led businesses through transformational change including restructuring, acquisitions and strategic alliances resulting in extraordinary growth periods.  Mike has held P&L accountability for multi-national  businesses  of $600M+ and has led teams of up to 1,200.  Mike’s experience includes leadership roles at Baxter Healthcare, Moore Corporation, Cardinal Health, Phonak (US) Hearing Systems and Patterson Companies.

Mike is known as a leader who delivers on his commitments, operates with integrity, and promotes industry success and health.  He has been very committed to the Health Industry Distribution Association (HIDA) having served on the Board of Directors and chaired the Board in 2017.  During his tenure as CEO of Phonak U.S., the leading hearing aid manufacturer in the world, he was a member of the Hearing Industries Association (HIA) holding the position of Vice-Chair in 2011-’12.

During his tenure at Phonak (U.S.) Hearing Systems, Mike and his team nearly doubled the company’s revenue to $450mm in 4+ years while growing market share from 15% to 25%.  By aligning priorities across the organization and driving accountability & focused execution, his team launched multiple new products into the U.S. market. As President of Patterson Companies Medical Division, he restructured the sales, service and marketing teams while launching a strategic supplier partnership program which drove double digit organic growth during his first year.  After the sale of the Medical Division to Private Equity, his team and he executed a successful Corporate carve-out in 2016-’17 into a stand-alone $500+mm private entity.

Speaking to Mike’s tenure at Phonak, the Global Head of Sales said “Mike was always extremely successful, delivering over expectations. During his tenure, the company achieved market leadership in the US while Mike adapted the structure and the targets over time to digest and consolidate the growth. Mike is a practical, common sense leader, able to create a team and lead them towards a goal.”  And former CEO of Performance Health acquired by Patterson Medical in 2016 said “Mike is an inspirational leader who knows how to connect incredibly well customers and employees! He is a leader who gives energy to others!”

Mike joined Masters Alliance in 2021 while founding E.Q. Growth Solutions, LLC with a focus on helping businesses and their leaders adapt their business models, strategies, and cultures to deliver employee engagement, customer satisfaction and growth through disciplined execution and accountability.

Mike was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Emporia State University (Kansas).