Boards: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Molina Healthcare, Inc., Nanoscale Components, Inc., Santa Clara University, San Francisco Symphony.

Throughout his 45-year career in law and business, Dan Cooperman has focused on issues related to corporate governance, board governance, and conflicts in the boardroom, as well as the changing role of the general counsel and the management of large global corporate law departments. 

Dan is the former general counsel of Oracle Corp. from 1997 to 2007 and former general counsel of Apple Inc. from 2007 to 2009. Following his retirement from Apple, Dan served as senior counsel of the law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP from 2010 to 2016 and senior counsel of the global law firm DLA Piper LLP from 2016 to 2018. He also taught a course that he conceived, “The Role of the Modern General Counsel,” at both Stanford Law School and Stanford Business School. 

Currently, Dan serves on the board of directors of Molina Healthcare Inc. (New York Stock Exchange: MOH), a Fortune 500 company specializing in providing health services for low-income families and individuals, where he chairs the compliance and quality committee. Dan is also a board member of Nanoscale Components Inc., a lithium-ion battery process developer; a longtime advisor to Institutional Venture Partners; an active angel investor; and an advisor to several other private technology-based companies, including Zoox Inc., a company developing fully autonomous vehicles, where he served on the board until its acquisition by Amazon in 2020. 

Dan has long served on the board of various large nonprofit organizations in Northern California. He is the chair of the board of advisors of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, serves on the board of the San Francisco Symphony and Carmel Bach Festival, and is a past board chair of Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley. 

Before joining Oracle as general counsel, Dan had been the Silicon Valley office managing partner of the law firm formerly known as McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen LLP, and a consultant in strategic planning at McKinsey & Co. 

Dan earned his juris doctor degree and master’s degree in business administration from Stanford, and earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude with highest distinction in economics.