Ed Fernandez
Faculty Member at Silicon Valley Innovation Center
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- Silicon Valley Innovation Center
- ISDI
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Biography
Silicon Valley Innovation Center
Board Director, Advisor, Early-stage & Startup VC / PE - Entrepreneur and Faculty @ Northeastern University based in Palo Alto.
Member of the Young Presidents' Organization, a worldwide not-for-profit association of leaders and entrepreneurs: http://ypo.org
Electrical & Electronic Engineer - GSMP post-grad at University of Chicago Booth School of Business & IE Business School and ELPP from Berkeley's University Center for Technology & Entrepreneurship.
Mentor & Advisor at Singularity University Ventures & Berkeley's Center for Technology & Entrepreneurship.
Independent Board Director at Arowana International, an assets/fund management and PE public company listed on ASX (ASX:AWN). Board Director/observer at Vivopower (NASDAQ:VVPR). Strategic advisor at Arowana's Alicorn Venture Fund. Board advisor at Avana Capital (private lending).
Founded Naiss.io, an advisory & VC boutique in Palo Alto focusing on technology startups & early-stage companies.
Board Director & Investor at BigML Inc, an US Machine Learning as a Service platform company.
Two decades of corporate experience in the mobile industry: MD/EVP at BlackBerry and Nokia from 1996 to 2013.
Received Nokia Circle of Excellence award in 2005.
Faculty at Northeastern University (Silicon Valley campus) and FT/IE corporate learning alliance - IE Business School, regular contributor to CNBC and author at publishing house Plataforma Editorial.
Professional Experience
Independent Board Director at Arowana International, a PE and fund & assets management company (ASX:AWN)- Board Director/observer at VivoPower (NASDAQ:VVPR).
Board advisor at Avana Capital.
Board Director at BigML Inc, a Machine Learning platform company.
Advisory Board member at Alicorn, a venture fund investing in Series C to E, pre - IPO companies with $1Bn Valuations (Unicorns).
Mentor & Advisor at Singularity University Ventures & Berkeley's Center for Technology & Entrepreneurship.
Faculty at Northeastern University - Silicon Valley
Former corporate executive at Nokia and BlackBerry.
Education
- Executive - Engineering Leadership Program, Educational Leadership and Administration, General University of California, Berkeley (2012 - 2013)
- Executive-Global Senior Management Program, Educational Leadership and Administration, General The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2011 - 2012)
- IE Business School
- Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering Universidad de Alcalá (1987 — 1993)
- Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
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