AIERA CEO and leadership

Ken Sena is CEO & Co-founder of Aiera Inc. and a former Internet Equity Research Analyst, and an enthusiast of architecture. Aiera is the only LIVE event monitoring & financial search platform which provides real-time transcription, one-click audio, and DVR-style live audio/transcription controls. Before joining Aiera, Ken was a leading equity research analyst and head of global Internet coverage for Evercore ISI and Wells Fargo Securities. Ken began his research career at Bear Stearns, which followed positions in corporate strategy and business development at Viacom and Time Warner. An area of interest outside of work is architectural restoration where he has received recognition by NY State Preservation League, CT State Historic Trust, and the Documentation of Modern Monuments (Docomomo US). Ken graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Magna cum Laude with a dual B.S. / B.A. from the Wharton School and College of Arts & Sciences. He also holds his Series 7, 63, 86 & 87 certifications.

He is a technology leader, innovation advocate, data scientist and engineer, and business developer. He has helped create and grow several start-ups, along with significant experience working with companies and teams of all sizes and shapes. As a software manager, he is an Agile/Scrum expert, and he believes in a bottom-up approach to leadership that will minimize management intrusion while maintaining accountability, giving highest importance to hiring and training. As a business developer, he has experience in helping companies organize, formalize, fundraise, and prepare for rapid growth. He is also capable of leading by example as a software developer, data scientist, and machine learning engineer. The majority of his work has been in the field of consumer-facing web development, big data technology, and machine learning and artificial intelligence, including computational linguistics and deep learning. His passion is in building secure, highly scalable, load-tolerant services that are extensible and easy to maintain. He has experience in full-stack development, including database architecture, service-oriented design, and UI/UX best practices. He has also built scalable systems for large-scale predictive data analytics, recommendations, and model building for speech recognition and natural language processing. He wrote a book about the start-up experience: Start-up Struggles.

Conor McDade is a CFO at Aiera and is based in New York City, New York. He has worked as Summer Analyst, Equity Research at EVERCORE INC.; Intern, Equity Sales and Research Rotation at EVERCORE INC.; and Associate, Equity Research at EVERCORE INC.. Conor attended Duke University between 2009 and 2013, University College London (UCL) between 2011 and 2011, and Rye Country Day School between 2005 and 2009.

Ken Sena is CEO & Co-founder of Aiera Inc. and a former Internet Equity Research Analyst, and an enthusiast of architecture. Aiera is the only LIVE event monitoring & financial search platform which provides real-time transcription, one-click audio, and DVR-style live audio/transcription controls. Before joining Aiera, Ken was a leading equity research analyst and head of global Internet coverage for Evercore ISI and Wells Fargo Securities. Ken began his research career at Bear Stearns, which followed positions in corporate strategy and business development at Viacom and Time Warner. An area of interest outside of work is architectural restoration where he has received recognition by NY State Preservation League, CT State Historic Trust, and the Documentation of Modern Monuments (Docomomo US). Ken graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Magna cum Laude with a dual B.S. / B.A. from the Wharton School and College of Arts & Sciences. He also holds his Series 7, 63, 86 & 87 certifications.

He is a technology leader, innovation advocate, data scientist and engineer, and business developer. He has helped create and grow several start-ups, along with significant experience working with companies and teams of all sizes and shapes. As a software manager, he is an Agile/Scrum expert, and he believes in a bottom-up approach to leadership that will minimize management intrusion while maintaining accountability, giving highest importance to hiring and training. As a business developer, he has experience in helping companies organize, formalize, fundraise, and prepare for rapid growth. He is also capable of leading by example as a software developer, data scientist, and machine learning engineer. The majority of his work has been in the field of consumer-facing web development, big data technology, and machine learning and artificial intelligence, including computational linguistics and deep learning. His passion is in building secure, highly scalable, load-tolerant services that are extensible and easy to maintain. He has experience in full-stack development, including database architecture, service-oriented design, and UI/UX best practices. He has also built scalable systems for large-scale predictive data analytics, recommendations, and model building for speech recognition and natural language processing. He wrote a book about the start-up experience: Start-up Struggles.