Dr. Edwin Hernandez is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and technology leader — the founder of EGLA Corp, a technology company that develops its own intellectual property and serves as a platform where other innovators build ventures at the EGLAVATOR, his technology incubator and accelerator in Boca Raton, FL. The EGLAVATOR assists and invests in early-stage technology companies, offering funding advice, go-to-market strategy, intellectual property guidance, and hands-on execution support.
As a technology leader, Dr. Hernandez has worked with engineering and business teams since his days at Motorola and Microsoft. Through his intellectual property portfolio, he and his team have reached licensing agreements covering Motorola, Google, Apple, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, DISH Wireless, Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Comcast, and other major technology companies. He is an expert in technology and venture funding with extensive experience in wireless communications, AI, cloud computing, IoT, electronic devices, and advanced software platforms — a hands-on coder who builds prototypes for many of the products developed at his incubator and is well versed in code reviews and hardware/software audits.
Dr. Hernandez earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. He is a named inventor on 17 issued U.S. patents and 5 European patents. He has provided technical expert witness services in 50+ intellectual property cases, including 15+ inter partes reviews (IPRs), and four testimonies at trial, Daubert hearings, and numerous depositions. He was a Fulbright Scholar and has twice served as a judge for the Mobile World Congress. He is a Microsoft and Motorola alumnus, a member of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) at Florida Atlantic University, and producer of his own technology podcast, TECHEDTV.
Dr. Hernandez has testified as an expert witness in several high-value matters, including for Blue Radios at trial (a $24.8M award, per Nasdaq), for the Mojo Mobility legal team on wireless-charging patents (a $192M award, per Reuters), for the TOT Power Control team on power-control patents (a $110M award, per Reuters), and for Intellectual Ventures against LG in a multi-million-dollar licensing dispute.