Tamara Casey

Recognized for her visionary leadership and more than 35 years of experience in helping telecommunications and technology firms achieve their full potential, Tamara Casey serves as President of AURA Ventures, where she leads efforts to identify, develop, and implement strategic opportunities that advance AURA’s mission. In addition to cofounding AURA Network Systems, she served as its President & Chief Technology Officer for more than three years, assembling a team uniquely qualified in both telecom and aviation. She remains laser-focused on transforming transportation by delivering command-and-control (C2) communications capabilities via a regulatory-compliant network designed for crewed and uncrewed aircraft.

As the granddaughter of a distinguished World War II veteran/U.S. Air Force Lt. Colonel, Tamara has been passionate about aviation her entire life. A licensed, multi-engine rated pilot, she has been intricately involved in the development of standards designed to safely integrate Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). She served on the RTCA Drone Advisory Committee to help develop minimum operational performance standards for C2 data links utilizing aviation-allocated spectrum resources. As CTO for Ligado Networks, she led successful demonstrations of control and non-payload communications (CNPC) capabilities for UAS and was also actively involved in supporting the evolving communications needs of the Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) community and other mission-critical infrastructure customers.

Tamara’s experience as a technology strategy consultant to numerous private equity firms and telecom giants provides cutting-edge insights to the innovation and capital that can be harnessed for the execution of AURA’s vision. She holds an Executive Leadership Certificate from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and studied media communications at Laney College.