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Andy Cooper has been a member of the Company's advisory board since December 2007. Mr. Cooper has more than twenty years of experience in venture management, venture investing and investment banking. In the last ten years, Mr. Cooper founded three start-up companies, the most recent one being Brand Asset Digital where he is founder and Chairman, a position he has held since 2006. Brand Asset Digital is a pioneer in digital media marketing and distribution via file trading systems and the Web.
From 2002 to 2007, Mr. Cooper was founder, co-CEO and director of Unison Site Management, a leading cellular site owner and manager with more than 1,500 cell-site leases and more than $18 million in annual cash flow. Unison recently sold its portfolio of assets to date to Goldman Sachs Global Infrastructure Partners for more than $375 million.
Mr. Cooper also co-founded Avesta Technologies, an enterprise, information and technology management software company, where he was chief financial officer and vice president of business development and channel sales. In 2000, Visual Networks bought Avesta for $420 million.
Mr. Cooper served as managing director with The Carlyle Group, focused on North American venture investments, and was with Morgan Stanley & Company for fourteen years, most recently as a principal of Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, focusing on late-stage venture investments, consolidations and buy-outs. Mr. Cooper was the lead partner and a director of CSG Systems (CSGS), Protection One Alarm (ALRM), LionBridge Technologies (LIOX), and Weblink Wireless (WLNKA), among others. Before joining the venture group at Morgan Stanley, he worked in the company's Debt Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions divisions in New York and Tokyo.
Mr. Cooper is on the board of the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club of New York. He earned a B.A. from Duke University.
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