As General Counsel of Oracle Corporation, Mr. Cooperman’s responsibilities include worldwide legal policies, corporate governance and securities compliance, mergers and acquisitions, commercial licensing, intellectual property, employment law, litigation, patent law and legal support for Oracle’s various business units. He also manages Oracle’s Legal Department and serves as Secretary to the Board of Directors.

Mr. Cooperman is currently serving as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Software & Information Industry Association, the largest trade association in the software industry, Treasurer of the Association of General Counsel and a member of the Board of Directors of the Oracle Education Foundation. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Committee of Corporate General Counsel and is on the Advisory Council for the Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford Law School.

Prior to joining Oracle in February, 1997, Mr. Cooperman was a partner with the San Francisco-based law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (now known as Bingham McCutchen), and served as chair of McCutchen’s 65-lawyer Business & Transactions Group and Managing Partner of the firm’s San Jose office. In his law practice, which centered on the representation of emerging and established technology-based companies, Mr. Cooperman specialized in acquisitions, strategic alliances and corporate partnering transactions and the negotiation of licensing, marketing and distribution contracts.

Mr. Cooperman graduated summa cum laude with highest distinction in economics from Dartmouth College in 1972. He then attended Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and School of Law, receiving both his M.B.A. and J.D. from Stanford in 1976. Prior to joining McCutchen, he was a consultant in strategic planning with McKinsey & Company’s San Francisco Office.