John Cooper

John A. Cooper serves as President of Startup Investments for the Orlando Opportunity Fund.
He has led or participated in financing and merger/acquisition activities for more than 200 technology sector companies, with specific focus in SaaS enterprise applications, Internet technologies, and Healthcare IT.
Since 2014 he has been the managing director of Houlihan Lokey – ranked as the No.
1 M&A advisor for all U.S.
transactions, the No.
1 global restructuring advisor, and the No.
1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 20 years.
Mr. Cooper served as Managing Director of Microsoft Corporation in corporate development and strategy group, where he performed a leadership role in investments & acquisitions, defining key corporate relationships and involved in more than thirty transactions.
Mr. Cooper led the acquisition of Great Plains, Inc., Mr. Cooper advised ThinkTank LLC on the privatization of Buy.com, as well as the management and refinement of its technology investment portfolio.
Mr. Cooper held senior corporate development and strategy positions with American Express Corporation, First Data Corporation, and HBO & Company, where he participated in more than two hundred strategic investment and acquisition processes.
He played a central role in the founding of two venture capital-sponsored technology and services companies.
He serves as an Executive Director of Archpoint Corp.
Mr. Cooper has been an active Board Member for both public and private companies in the technology sector.
He graduated from the University of Minnesota and completed Post Graduate Studies in Computer Science, Management and Marketing, including an executive management program at MIT in Advanced Technologies in Business.