Born LeRoy D. Bain to a poor lower middle-class family in 1938 in San Francisco, Roy managed to escape poverty to become a millionaire by the time he was 35 years old.  In addition to being a successful hearing instrument specialist, he  and a partner started and ran a successful hearing aid manufacturing company called NuEar Electronics in 1977 that was later sold to Starkey Labs in 1989 while continuing to run it until 1994.  In 1994 he started a hearing professional marketing company, Audiocare, Inc., that is still doing business today.  He has various real estate holdings and is the author of 7 published books.