Teague Egan

Egan was born on July 6, 1988 and raised in South Florida. His father, Michael Egan, founded Alamo Rent a Car. He attended Pine Crest School before transferring to St. Thomas Aquinas High School in his junior year, where he competed in golf and track. Egan received a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California and completed an executive program in exponential technology at Singularity University.

Egan founded 1st Round Enterprises in 2008 while an undergraduate at USC, promoting music events in Los Angeles. In 2009 he co-founded the independent record label 1st Round Records with Zack Johnson. The label released Boston's Boy, the 2010 debut EP by rapper Sammy Adams, which reached number one on the iTunes hip-hop chart and number 73 on the Billboard 200.

In October 2010, at the age of 22, Egan became a certified contract advisor with the National Football League Players Association while still an undergraduate, the first person certified by the union before graduating college. In November 2010, he gave USC running back Dillon Baxter a ride across campus on a golf cart bearing his company's logo. Baxter was held out of USC's November 20 game against Oregon State and served a one-game suspension for accepting an impermissible benefit; USC head coach Lane Kiffin described the contact as inadvertent.

On December 3, 2010, the NFLPA revoked Egan's certification. Union spokesman George Atallah said a review of Egan's qualifications had found he was "not fit to be a certified contract advisor." USC vice president of compliance Dave Roberts said the university had been notified promptly and would continue to treat any benefit from Egan to a student-athlete as impermissible under NCAA rules. Egan subsequently left sports representation.

Egan founded Energy Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) in 2018 after a visit to the Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia, and serves as its chief executive officer and chairman. The company develops direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology and is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with laboratory facilities in Austin, Texas. As of 2024 Egan held approximately 47 percent of the company.

In 2021 EnergyX raised $20 million from Obsidian Acquisition Partners, Helios Capital and other investors, and was one of eight companies shortlisted by the government of Bolivian president Luis Arce to deploy DLE technology in the country. EnergyX deployed a pilot plant at the Salar de Uyuni in December 2021. In June 2022, Reuters reported that EnergyX had been dropped from Bolivia's lithium selection process.

Egan sits on the board of directors of the Thomas E. Smith Foundation and co-founded Dance For Paralysis, its outreach division. In 2015 he and Thomas E. Smith completed a 2,109-mile bicycle ride from Boston to Miami over 38 days, raising $100,000 for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.