Timothy Cooley
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Timothy Cooley was the founding president & CEO of Tech Coast-based Partnership 2010, a leading regional think-tank of business, government and education leaders and researchers focused on the economic competitiveness of Orange County and the Southern California region. He was an integral participant in the development of the entrepreneurial and technology ecosystem in Southern California.
Cooley developed the concept of Southern California’s Tech Coast in the mid-1990’s as a method to delineate the development and future path of the region’s economy. The name gained traction with analysts, businesses, and the media and is now accepted as a part of the Southern California and international technology hub taxonomy in the same top-ranked category as Silicon Valley, Massachusetts Route 128 and the Research Triangle.
His board-level industry appointments have included: Larta Institute, Life Sciences Industry Council, American Electronics Association, Forum for Corporate Directors, CONNECT (UCSD), ACCELERATE(UCI), Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, Orange Coast Venture Group, and VenturePoint (SBDC)
