Ed Fernandez
Verified
44, married, father of two. Wireless industry veteran with over 20 years of experience.
Member of the Young Presidents' Organization, a worldwide association of leaders and entrepreneurs under 45, recruited after ranking among best Spanish telco executives by the financial newspaper El Economista, 2nd and 3rd sequentially in 2011 and 2012.
I have been working in technology almost two decades, last 17 years, on smartphones, mobile platforms and value added services.
In my latest tenure I worked as VP for BlackBerry. Joined BlackBerry back in 2007, overseeing SouthWest territories in EMEA. Moved to US to head LATAM north markets in my last assignment. Previously, I spent 9 years at Nokia in different roles.
I am a proud telecom engineer, post-educated at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and IE Business School.
As an entrepreneur led different start up initiatives since 2001 with the advent of early mobile ecosystems, and remain adviser to some. Served also as interim MD at ScrOOn, a social media tools creator, throughout its acquisition by BlackBerry in 2013.
I currently invest & work as advisor, VC partner/practitioner and board observer in different companies & start ups.
I am a fellow member at the Spanish Internet Society Club and belong to the scientific committee of El Ser Creativo. I'm a member of High IQ societies EPL & Tensa and made it to the World Genius Directory this year (IQ 150-SD15).
In the academic front, I was a visiting lecturer at Menendez Pelayo University UIMP, the Digital Economy Institute ICEMD-ESIC and the master program in Business & Telecom Law of the firm Cremades&Calvo Sotelo in Spain.
My first computer was a Commodore 64 back in the 80s, a 64Kb RAM machine running on a 1 MHz CPU. Avid assembler programmer I became an amateur hacker at that time.
Hyperactive and extreme multitasker, I am proud finisher of Madrid's marathon, blogger, writer, CNBC contributor & author at the publishing house Plataforma Editorial.