Daniel Cooperman to Join Apple as General Counsel
Oracle Corporation’s senior vice president, secretary and general counsel will now be working for Steve Jobs; Apple CEO for November 1st. “Dan will be an excellent addition to our team and will fit right into Apple’s fast paced culture,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Dan is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in securities compliance, intellectual property, litigation and corporate governance.”
The announcement has also come that the current Apple senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, Donald J Rosenberg has decided to leave the company.
“We thank Don for his contributions to Apple during the past ten months, and wish him well in his future endeavors,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.
Cooperman was responsible for the legal department at Oracle which included worldwide legal policies, securities compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, patent law, intellectual property, employment law, commercial licensing, litigation and legal support for the various business units of Oracle. He is also currently working as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Software & Information Industry Association, which is also the largest trade association currently in the software industry, he is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Committee of Corporate General Counsel as he is on Advisory Council for the Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford Law School.
Graduating from the Dartmouth College in 1972, Cooperman is a graduate summa cum laude with the highest distinction in the field of economics after which he had a stint at the Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and School of Law, where he received his M.B.A as well as J.D from Stanford in the year of 1976. .
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