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DR.
miles
Aron,
Leading With
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my Story
I co-founded Neurotone AI alongside CEO Rick Carlson and CTO Travis Whitton to revolutionize hearing care globally using AI. As Chief Operating Officer, I lead the company’s strategic and operational initiatives, with a focus on advancing auditory rehabilitation through our flagship platform: Lace AI Pro.
Hearing aids make sound louder — but understanding happens in the brain. That’s where we come in.
Built on two decades of peer-reviewed research by Dr. Robert Sweetow and Dr. Jennifer Henderson Sabes, Lace AI Pro helps patients improve listening comprehension, manage noisy environments, and regain social confidence.
Clinically, it improves outcomes on QuickSIN tests by an average of 2–3 dB, and in some cases up to 10 dB — helping patients comprehend 25% more speech in noisy settings. It reduces hearing aid return rates by 70–90%, and has been shown to produce lasting changes in neural activity related to speech comprehension.
We’re empowering patients to take an active role in their hearing care — helping them stay connected to the people and environments they love.
It’s a truly meaningful endeavor.
I was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1991 to two classical guitarists. At sixteen, I launched my first business—teaching guitar from a small studio I rented myself. I had found two of my lifelong anchors: sound and business.
I formalized that passion at the University of Hartford, where I studied acoustical engineering. Later, I received a Fulbright Scholarship to Zurich to develop ultrasound tools for opening the blood-brain barrier. I went on to earn my doctorate at the University of Oxford, where I invented a new microbubble formulation for ultrasound-based drug delivery—initially demonstrated in vitro and later shown effective in vivo.
That early work—at the intersection of physics, biology, and clinical impact—continues to shape how I think as an operator. Whether I’m architecting systems or leading initiatives, I’m always asking: how do we get from first principles to real-world outcomes?
Before starting companies, I spent years at the lab bench—engineering novel ways to deliver medicine across some of the body’s most challenging barriers.
At the University of Oxford, my doctoral research, supervised by Professor Eleanor Stride, explored how ultrasound and cavitation agents like microbubbles and liposomes could enhance drug delivery across cell membranes and through cellular junctions into the brain.
Specifically, I studied the ultrasound-triggered release and deposition of surfactant lipids onto cell membranes, influencing their permeability to therapeutic agents, and how this phenomenon could be leveraged to engineer for more effective drug delivery, an area previously unexplored.
My work revealed that lipid transfer between microbubbles and cells significantly altered cell membrane hydration and lipid organization. I systematically demonstrated how different lipids impacted sonoporation (ultrasound-induced pore formation in cell membranes), ultimately identifying lysophosphatidylcholine as particularly effective.
Previously, as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Switzerland, I conducted research in the Interface Group at the Universität Zürich under Professor Vartan Kurtcuoglu, collaborating closely with ETH Zürich. My project involved investigating methods to safely bypass the blood-brain barrier using focused ultrasound and microbubbles, a promising approach aimed at enhancing treatments for brain cancer and other hitherto untreatable brain diseases and disorders.
My primary interest was in isolating the specific mechanical forces responsible for temporarily opening the blood-brain barrier without causing damage. To this end, I performed computational fluid dynamics and finite element simulations using COMSOL and OpenFOAM, enabling a detailed analysis and design loop. Based on these simulations, I fabricated a custom silicon actuator engineered to deliver controlled oscillatory shear stress directly onto brain cell membranes, effectively isolating the time-dependent shear stress from other ultrasound-induced mechanical, thermal, and chemical effects.
To experimentally validate this method, I built an experimental setup with fine-grained alignment stages, and extracted and cultured an advanced in vitro blood-brain barrier model from porcine brains, a detailed tissue-engineering process. I demonstrated the presence of essential barrier components, including tight-junction proteins Claudin-5 and Occludin, and confirmed culture purity using immunofluorescence assays. While my one-year project didn't fully resolve my initial questions, it took me to the cutting edge of the field and laid critical groundwork for my doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where I continued exploring blood-brain barrier modulation using ultrasound and microbubbles.
I co-founded Subtonic with Brandon Moffitt and Dan Florio to revolutionize music education by leveraging cutting-edge web technology and the emergence of the creator economy.
Our primary challenge was the synchronization of numerous time-sensitive events within a browser-based, resource-constrained environment. To address this, I personally developed several technical innovations: a dynamic, responsive sheet music rendering engine capable of accurately highlighting notes across multiple voices, complex rhythms and harmonies, a bespoke browser-based MIDI sound engine, allowing musicians to modulate pitch, rhythm, tempo, and timbre in real-time, and an industry-first: real-time feedback for pitch and rhythmic accuracy directly in the browser, facilitating gamified learning.
Building on this pioneering technology, we launched a marketplace designed to empower musicians and educators. Our platform attracted influential musicians through targeted influencer strategies, providing accessible music education while enabling creators to monetize their expertise beyond traditional one-on-one lessons and static content formats. Our system included critical marketplace features such as payment processing, user accounts, social media integration, gamification elements, and referral systems, all developed before the emergence of today's low-code solutions.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we hosted live-streamed events to keep musicians connected, inspired, and actively learning. Despite our best efforts, the challenging funding climate led to Subtonic ultimately closing its doors. Yet, in the time since, I have observed that no other company has matched the technical sophistication or fully realized the vision we pursued. Given recent technological advances, I remain inspired to one day revisit and fulfill this vision as a tribute to my parents, both classically trained musicians, and to my many friends in the music community.
I co-founded and served as CEO of Arcanium Ventures, a software development and recruiting agency immersed in Austin's vibrant startup ecosystem. In three years, we delivered over $6M in projects for over 60 startups, earned near-perfect reviews on Clutch.co, and grew to 12 employees supported by 50+ contractors.
The experience provided invaluable lessons in sales, leadership, and business strategy, enhanced by mentorship from Golden Section Ventures and the New Chip Series A Accelerator, and practicing as a certified AWS Solutions Architect to solve complex technical and product challenges for high-growth startups.
In Healthcare & Wellness, we built technology teams and products for startups including Keyspan, MatchDay, AppyHealth, and Jackson Medical Solutions.
In AI & Machine Learning, we secured sub-contracts with Denny’s, Samsung, and Hisense for advanced NLP and voice applications, built an AI-generated movie-making pipeline (pre-Sora), and supported a TechStars startup in developing proprietary film scripting technology.
In Blockchain and Web3, we designed and built a crypto-based AirBnB competitor that raised an oversubscribed Seed round. We developed NFT platforms, including a record label with automated split-sheets for musicians to collaborate freely, high-profile crypto gaming experiences, and digital projects for celebrities such as Snoop Dogg.
In IoT, Cloud, & Web Development, we provided dev ops and architecture for IoT initiatives, including AI-driven methane tracking (US Department of Energy) and vineyard yield optimization. We created an attendance-tracking platform for a Y Combinator startup that worked to fund underprivileged schools, we partnered strategically with a warehouse automation firm extending their services with custom apps, and we developed a meal-planning and dispatch platform for a meal-delivery startup.
As Fractional CTO and Advisor at Keyspan, I helped bring to life an innovative wellness platform designed to simplify personalized health optimization. Keyspan combined comprehensive baseline blood tests, personalized supplement and lifestyle plans, ongoing blood biomarker monitoring, one-on-one health coaching, and a vibrant user community, all supported by a user-friendly app.
My role involved architecting the core software infrastructure, managing the software development team, and overseeing critical processes, including integration with mobile phlebotomist dispatch for at-home blood draws, processing and analyzing laboratory data to generate individualized supplement plans, managing subscription services, and integrating personalized wellness recommendations into the mobile app experience.
I represented Keyspan at the 2024 Biomarkers of Aging Conference, engaging with prominent researchers and industry leaders such as Steve Horvath (inventor of the "Horvath clock" for determining biological age based on DNA methylation) and David Sinclair (known for research on NAD+ and reveratrol) who left a lasting impression. I also helped facilitate a collaboration with genomics leader Vadim Gladyshev's laboratory at Harvard University with Jesse Poganik, Executive Director of the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium.
Under my technical leadership, and working in close collaboration with Founder and CEO, Nate Taylor, and CMO, Jo Vos, who later joined me at Neurotone AI, Keyspan was recognized as one of Athletech's most innovative fitness and wellness companies of 2025.
Prior to officially starting Arcanium, I led technical consulting teams delivering robust, enterprise-grade software solutions across diverse industries, including pharmaceuticals, ed-tech, AR/VR, and e-commerce.
In pharmaceuticals, I validated clinical trials through custom R-based analytical workflows with MadCity Analytics, ensuring data integrity and accuracy for critical drug studies.
For Safer Management (Y Combinator 2021), I guided the development of an ed-tech platform from prototype to market-ready product, implementing advanced real-time facial recognition technology and modernizing their infrastructure with AWS Lambda, GraphQL, TypeScript, React, Storybook, PostgreSQL, and automated CI/CD pipelines.I also contracted for Lead Commerce, a warehouse tech startup, building embedded API integrations with QuickBooks, Stripe, and ShipStation using Apollo Server, GraphQL, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
At ArchieMD, a NASA contractor, I developed an e-learning platform using NextJS and React to bring their augmented reality and virtual reality trainings to nurses, medics, and surgeons at-scale.
Earlier, I consulted extensively with SharpSpring, a publicly-traded HubSpot competitor, developing software using GraphQL/Apollo, TypeScript, Docker, microservices, and React within agile workflows. This engagement introduced me to CTO, Travis Whitton, and CEO, Rick Carlson, who later became my co-founders at Neurotone AI.
These experiences provided invaluable insights into building and managing technical consulting teams, directly inspiring my subsequent founding of Arcanium Ventures. Additionally, they deepened my expertise in software architecture, cloud DevSecOps, and complex data analysis—core competencies that continue to underpin my professional approach today.
Through these experiences, I collaborated closely with many startup leadership teams, gaining firsthand insight into strategies that succeeded—and those that didn't—perfectly positioning me for my next chapter at Neurotone AI.
