
Emilio A. Fernandez Jr.
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About
Emilio A. Fernandez Jr. is an inventor, entrepreneur, and investor best known as co-founder of Pulse Electronics, whose railroad-control business was acquired by Wabtec, where he later served as vice chairman and long-time director. Public filings show he retained a large personal Wabtec equity stake, and UMD describes him as an early-stage investor across a broad technological spectrum. He is also a major philanthropy-backed innovation patron, including the E.A. Fernandez IDEA Factory at the University of Maryland and the iSTEM@GW program at George Washington University.
Areas of interest
rail transportationindustrial technologyelectronicsbiomedical instrumentationearly-stage startupsSTEM educationphilanthropyinnovation