Dr. Edwin Hernandez is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, technology leader, and founder of EGLA CORP . EGLA is a tech powerhouse that create its own technology and where other innovators come to create ventures at the EGLAVATOR. The EGLAVATOR is Dr. Hernandez’ technology incubator and accelerator located in Boca Raton, FL. The EGLAVATOR assists and invests in several technology startups including funding advise, go to market strategies, intellectual property, and execution
Dr. Hernandez Technical Leadership
- As a legal expert and leader in intellectual property. Dr. Hernandez has helped his clients include multi-million dollar licensing and settlements, including Mojo Mobility over $190M, Blue Radios over $20M, and many others with over $300M licenses and settlements. As an expert,. Dr. Hernandez has been invited to panels covering legal matters in cybersecurity, Artificial intelligence in several podcasts and webinars.,
- As a startup and tech leader, Dr. Hernandez funded and managed a technology Accelerator and incubator in Boca Raton FL, called EGLAVATOR. The EGLAVATOR was recognized as one of the tech hubs in South Florida and hosted events and over 80 startups from 2017 to 2023. Including, alumni as Points Kash with a multi-million dollar valuation and funding, or Guiltless with an appearance at “Elevator Pitch” TV Show.
- In 2024 Global Innovation Award nominations for his patents and technology accelerator, and other awards in Florida, from blockchain to augmented reality
- Hernandez has been recognized as the Inventor of Modern Wireless Handoff, a technology used by the entire 4G and 5G industries, in most mobile phones, connected cars, and other devices with licenses with Verizon Wireless, Cisco, DISH, Phone Carriers, Device Manufacturers, and others
- Judge for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona twice 2019 to 2020
- As leader in Streaming technologies, Dr. Hernandez’ and EGLA’s “Streaming Portfolio” is cited by several Cloud TV and streaming magazines for his multimedia streaming platforms that was instrumental in a $16M acquisition in 2014
- Education leadership as a Founder of HONDURAS GLOBAL, an organization helping STEM and other professional students with seminars in Honduras, and industry advisor to Florida Atlantic University, EECS School’s.
- Hernandez also produces TECHEDTV a technology news channel and podcast in Spanish and English
Dr. Hernandez’z Expert Witness Trials and Outcomes
Dr. Edwin has testified for small and multi-Billion dollar corporations. In California’s Federach Court, for a company called Talent Mobile and their trademark and mobile app “Real Caller” against Hedious Group for a jury trial award of $700K. Later, Dr. Edwin testified in Delaware’s Federach Court against Amazon, representing Tracktime. Later, in Denver’s federal court including a Daubert hearing on behalf of Blue Radios for a jury trial award of $24.8M (Source: Nasdaq),. Recently, Dr. Hernandez was also part of the Mojo Mobility legal team on wireless charging patents for a $192M jury trial award (Source: Reuters). Another of his clients, TOT Power Control just received a $110M award at trial, where Dr. Edwin was their expert for over three years.
Around, Mid-October 2024, Dr. Hernandez testified at trial for Intellectual Ventures against LG in a $17M dollar licensing dispute in a complex case involving GM and Toyota vehicle, LG Telematics units, GM Navigation, and the popular OnStart products
Besides those jury trials, in his career Dr. Hernandez has been informed of multimillion dollar settlements for his clients in litigations involving telecommunications, software, hardware, and other technologies.