Our Mission
AI adoption requires a mindset shift and behavior change. We build for both.
Era Seven Partners is an AI capabilities firm guiding companies through the process of integrating artificial intelligence across their organizations, operations, and workflows — moving teams from AI awareness to AI advantage.
While most AI solutions settle for cursory comfort and access to more tools, we provide enterprise-level consulting and team-wide capabilities training that help define, design, and adopt intelligent systems for faster cycles, steadier decisions, and a team that knows what to do with it.
The E7 Team
Experience transformation led by practitioners
who've sat in your seat, run meetings like yours,
and speak your language.
That's not a tagline — it's who's in the room when we start.
Kate Cook
Founder & Lead Strategist
Kate Cook is the founder and lead strategist of Era Seven Partners. With 20 years at the intersection of media, marketing, and technology, she advises senior leaders and designs the strategies and systems that turn AI into measurable advantage.
She is machine-learning certified through Caltech CTME and is driven by a belief that how we adapt to, learn, and incorporate new technology will shape the kind of world we live and work in next.
John Arianas
Head of Strategic Partnership
With more than two decades of leadership experience across media, advertising, and digital transformation, John helps organizations unlock growth through strategic partnerships, business development and market expansion.
John has held senior leadership roles at NBCUniversal, Viacom/CBS, Participant Media, and most recently Locality, where he helped build new revenue opportunities, launch innovative business initiatives, and guide organizations through periods of transformation and growth.
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Tameka Kee
Paid Media Practice Lead
Tameka Kee is an advertising futurist who's spent 15+ years in the pipes of digital media — as a reporter covering the rise of programmatic, a marketer inside adtech (Rubicon Project, now Magnite), and a programmer of the industry's rooms at Digiday, ad: tech, and CIMM.
At Era Seven, she leads the paid media practice, helping the people who spend client money learn to interrogate AI, not just adopt it. She writes Ad Calls from the Edge and moderates for clients like Beet.TV.
Gabriela Leverette
Growth Marketing Lead
Gabriela is an award-winning growth strategist and creative leader with a decade of experience serving industry-leading brands at the intersection of media, culture, and technology.
She’s led teams across strategy and creative, threading together brand narrative, platform strategy, audience targeting, and emerging technologies to scale influential media and consumer brands alike.
Past work includes Viacom, Open Influence, Crooked Media, Pod Save America, and Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman.
Matt Robinson
Technical Lead
Matt Robinson is a Software Engineer and Data Scientist. He has a Masters in Information and Data Science from University of California, Berkeley and has worked for NASA IMPACT, Marshall Space Flight Center, the University of California at Davis, BASF AI Services, and Sav.com.
He loves dogs, roller skating, and collecting DnB vinyl records.
Juan Faisal
Learning & Development Lead
Juan designs learning experiences that blend storytelling, instructional design, and audience-first strategy to teach complex ideas, scale reach, and drive real action. His work spans global brands including Google, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest, MTV, and Unilever, as well as leading creators across education, travel, and entertainment.
He is also the co-founder and host of Slop World, a podcast exploring AI, culture, and the shifting realities of modern work.
Sharon Bordas
GTM Advisor
Sharon Bordas is a growth executive and go-to-market advisor at Era Seven Partners. She brings deep experience scaling media and technology companies through pivotal moments, with senior leadership roles at HearstLab, Mindshow, Mar Vista Entertainment, and A+E Networks.
Sharon works with founders and executive teams to sharpen positioning, unlock revenue, and turn complex products into focused, high-impact growth engines.