Partners for the AI era

Partners for
the AI era

Lead with clarity. 

Build with confidence.

We partner across strategy and execution, translating decisions into data platforms, GenAI applications, and agent-driven workflows that teams can rely on every day — grounded in feasibility, safety, and measurable value.

WHY WE EXIST

Our purpose

AI is uniquely consequential — capable of learning, deciding, and reshaping entire systems.  

Avenera is the trusted AI partner to enterprise leaders, providing confident action and durable advantage.

WHAT WE DO

Strategic advisory + engineering follow-through

We combine executive-level guidance with hands-on engineering to support both strategic planning and operational reality. These are inseparable — and together form the foundation of a credible AI partner.

Our work spans opportunity assessment, prioritization, and roadmap definition — then continues through system design, application development, and production deployment. The result is not generic recommendations, but durable AI capabilities embedded into how teams actually operate and aimed in pursuit of enterprise priorities.

SOLUTIONS

Our core

capabilities

Strategic advisory & change management

We work directly with your leadership teams to build confidence, align on high-value opportunities, and move from intention to execution — with clear decisions, well-defined scopes, and accountability.

Modern data platform & engineering

We design and operate production-ready data foundations — including data pipelines, governance models, and secure architectures — so AI systems are reliable, scalable, and ownable for your teams, not just prototypes.

Enterprise genAI & agent development

We design and deploy custom generative AI systems, including autonomous agents, that integrate into enterprise environments to automate complex reasoning, workflows, and system interactions.

HOW WE WORK

First, let’s chart your unique path...

1.

We listen closely to your organization’s context, constraints, and ambitions.

We identify where AI creates measurable business value (and where it doesn’t), so effort is focused where results matter most.

We align your leaders around a clear, actionable roadmap that teams can move forward on together — with success defined in outcomes, not experiments.

Let’s scope the highest-leverage path forward.

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...then research, diligence, integrate, and build custom AI solutions.

2.

When strategy is validated, Avenera can help design, build, and operate secure, production-ready AI systems.

We turn decisions into infrastructure, applications, and workflows that teams use every day — with performance tracked against the business goals that justified the work in the first place.

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The moment is now.

The pace of change can feel overwhelming, but Avenera exists to help leaders move forward with confidence.

As educators, engineers, and strategic advisors, we pride ourselves in turning complexity into clarity—and vision into outcomes.

PARTNERSHIP

Managed AI services are our core engagement model.

We serve as an ongoing AI partner that bridges leadership decision-making and hands-on technical execution. We help organizations identify what matters, then design, build, and operate production-ready AI systems to deliver it.

Our work strengthens internal teams through secure data platforms, engineering, governance, and continuous evolution — without requiring clients to hire or manage a large internal AI organization.

PARTNERSHIP

Testimonials

"Joe understands how to translate AI capabilities into real world business outcomes. He is someone I’d trust to assist an organization through the complexity of enterprise AI adoption"

Jamie Butler

Director of Solutions Architecture

US Education, State, and Local Government at Amazon Web Services

“Conceptually, AI should enable organizations to work faster, smarter, and more efficiently by automating workflow with AI tools. However, with the range of platforms and plug-ins, how can an enterprise know what to select among chatbots, coding assistance, email assistance, images, spreadsheets, meeting notes, scheduling, and the list goes on. The owners and boards of many businesses are struggling with these questions. And then there is data protection and privacy, as the AI platforms are designed to extract and use data, not to protect a user’s sensitive information."

James Bly

Managing Director, Family Enterprise Business Services, EY Co-Founder

Chairman Emeritus & Principal, FODIS (Family Office Direct Investment Services)

“Joe played a pivotal role in helping our teams understand AI and apply it to real business challenges. His guidance directly improved our operational efficiency and confidence in AI adoption.

Joe has a rare ability to make the fundamentals of AI easy to understand. He significantly increased the confidence of our non-technical teams and helped them integrate AI into their daily workflows.”

Stefan Ilic

Vice President, Global Technology

DHR Global / HF Companies

"Justin has high standards – and he expects the same for the teams that he helps build. He creates a trusting environment where we can be rigorous, authentic and honest because he has proven that this leads to performance. 

Justin has an uncanny ability to put complicated data and perspectives into clear focus – and always with an eye to the future. When our team gets stuck around difficult decisions, Justin is the one who skillfully reminds us of our goals and objectives.  Simply put: When it’s important, I trust Justin.”

Liesel Pritzker Simmons

Co-Founder and Principal

Blue Haven Initiative

WHOM WE SERVE

We partner with leaders of:

  • Growth-stage and mid-market companies navigating rapid transformation

  • Enterprise-scale organizations modernizing legacy, largely offline, or under-digitized industries

  • Family enterprises balancing innovation with privacy and long-term time horizons

  • Public-sector + nonprofit organizations that recognize AI’s transformative importance

  • Professional service firms seeking differentiated offerings

Regardless of industry or scale, our work centers on leadership teams who seek clarity, alignment, and sustained strategic advantage as AI reshapes operations.

LEADERSHIP

Meet our leadership

Avenera is a team of operators, engineers, and advisors with experience building and deploying enterprise-grade systems. We combine academic thought leadership in the AI space with practical execution.

Chris Dinnin

CEO

  • More than 30 years of experience building and leading enterprise technology and services organizations

  • Multi-time CEO specializing in translating emerging technology into durable, operational results

  • Led large-scale healthcare initiatives across the Middle East and Europe at Accenture

Justin Rockefeller

Co-Founder & Executive Chair

  • Addepar Global Director of Family Offices and Head of Impact

  • Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellow and member, Aspen Global Leadership Network

  • Co-Founder and Chair, The ImPact, a global membership community of families aligning their investments with their values

  • Former venture capitalist

  • Current board member of Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Longview Philanthropy

Joe T. Yun, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & Chief AI Strategist

  • AI systems architect and research leader bridging advanced machine learning with real-world application

  • Research Professor and Director of AI Enablement at the University of Pittsburgh

  • Co-founder of multiple AI ventures focused on production-grade systems

  • Work centers on building AI that meaningfully augments human capability — a core principle behind Avenera’s approach

SOLUTIONS

Ready to align on your company’s AI future?

We’ll help you scope the highest-leverage path forward, then build and operate the systems to get you there.

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Avenera helps leaders exercise clear judgment amid AI complexity to identify what truly matters — and then follows through to build, deploy, and operate enterprise AI systems.

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