Ivan Hernandez

Ivan Luiz Hernandez is a Cuban-American writer, business consultant, and entrepreneur dedicated to bringing unique stories and ideas to life. As a former brand executive and college professor of marketing, he headlined creative campaigns fo global brands including Red Bull and Pepsi's Allied Brands. Through his consultancy firm, Sociumship, he has helped business leadership teams in consumer goods, music, gaming, wellness, and other industries launch, strategize, grow and sell. He is also the founder of Heart Energy, an organization focused on helping symptomatic heart patients live as actively as they can.

The son of a former US spy who is the only known survivor of his unit in the Cuban Project, known as Operation Mongoose--and the adoptive grandson of Cuban Supreme Court Justice Luis Alberto Rubio, who served under President Fulgencio Batista until 1959--Ivan always felt his family was different. The unusual events he experienced as a child inspired him to finally tell his father's riveting story in Isla Vulnerable.

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