Timothy Cooley is a Fellow and member of the Board of Directors of the LARTA Institute. He is a strategic business advisor and an expert in issues related to regional economic competitiveness.

Mr. Cooley is the former Executive Vice President for Strategic Initiatives for the Orange County Business Council and President of the Southern California Technology Innovation Council. These related roles were an outgrowth of his position as President and CEO of Partnership 2010, an economic think tank of Southern California business, government, and education leaders credited with a number of major initiatives including the crafting of the first economic growth plan for Southern California's Tech Coast.

Mr. Cooley has over 30 years of investment, management, and strategic planning experience with companies ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. His career includes positions with IBM, E.F. Hutton, the Pacific Stock Exchange, Regis McKenna Inc., and Ernst & Young. He has been involved with founding a number of companies and is a frequent speaker on topics dealing with entrepreneurship and management of fast-growing companies, leadership, technology commercialization, and regional economic sustainability and competitiveness.

In addition to his corporate affiliations, Mr. Cooley has served on the Boards of Directors and Executive Committees of a number of leading professional and planning organizations including the American Electronics Association, the Life Sciences Industry Council, the Forum for Corporate Directors, the CalTech/MIT Enterprise Forum, the ACCELERATE Program at UCI, the CONNECT Program at UCSD, the Orange Coast Venture Group, the Southern California Regional Economic Strategies Consortium, the Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance, VenturePoint-Technology Business Development Center, and the University of California, Irvine's Medical Center.

He is a member of the technical advisory panel for the State of California Strategic Economic Planning Commission and a member of the State's Capital Formation and Business Investment Committee. He also has served on the California Business and Higher Education Forum, the County of Orange Overall Economic Development Planning Commission, the O.C. Defense Conversion Steering Committee, Orange County Government Practices Oversight Committee and the County of Orange Strategic Planning Commission.

Mr. Cooley graduated from the University of Wisconsin and resides in Irvine, California.