Ed Fernandez

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