Neuro Hero team

Our Team

Aviva CohenDr Aviva Cohen: Founder and  CEO

Aviva is the founder and CEO of Neuro Hero Ltd. In 1994, she began lecturing in Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Communications Theory. She combined her academic work with a career as a Senior Communications Consultant, working with both public sector and private sector clients. In 2006, Aviva’s husband survived a stroke. This motivated her to create projects to support those living with severe disabilities.

In 2008, Aviva launched the Research & Hope website: http://researchandhope.com/ It explains clinically tested but non-standard treatments for stroke. She founded Neuro Hero ltd. in 2011 and the company went on to win numerous awards. In 2016, following this success, Aviva was invited to apply for a post-doctoral research Fellowship which was an ASSISTID/Marie Curie co fund. Over the next three years she developed a video based care plan. During 2019 she expanded this project into a Cloud based system of care for everyone, including those with the most complex needs. This received a Commercialisation Grant from Enterprise Ireland in 2020 and Aviva is now the Principal Investigator on the seamlessCARE digital care platform which is hosted in UCD.

 

Speech and language therapyIan Kennedy: CTO

Ian Kennedy is CTO of Neuro Hero. He is a multi-award winning UX/UI and Digital Media content designer. He has worked in the Assistive Technology sector since 2013.  He has been responsible for designing all digital media for 19 award- winning apps along with their localisation to six languages. These Speech and Language therapy apps were designed for people living with communication difficulties that often follow stroke, brain injury, autism and other conditions. His specialities include designing Graphic User Interfaces for the prototyping and development of Assistive Technology and 3D animated videos for dissemination both on-line and at conferences. Ian also has over 30 years’ experience in the audio and video industry. He has produced and edited videos for clients that include Ancestry.com. In his role as research consultant from 2016-2020 he was responsible for collecting, analysing and presenting data relating to Assistive Technology for people living with intellectual difficulties. In 2020, Ian Co-founded seamlessCARE Ltd with Dr Aviva Cohen, to develop AI assistive technologies .

 

Speech and language therapyMilind Sonawane: M.Sc. Audiology and Speech Language Therapy

Milind holds a Master’s degree in Speech Language Therapy & Audiology from the University of Mysore, India. His work experience spans over 19 years across various health care settings in India and Asia Pacific. Currently he works as a senior speech and language therapist with clients presenting with wide a range of communication disorders. Milind is passionate to try and find a match between technologies and people with communication disorders.