Darren Cooke - Interim Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer (CIEO), Executive Director of the Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center

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Darren Cooke is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center, professional faculty at the Berkeley Haas School of Business, and chairs the Bio Track at the Berkeley SkyDeck startup accelerator. Darren teaches entrepreneurship at Berkeley Haas, and the I-Corps program for the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. He is an investor and former chair of Medical Device and Digital Health at Life Science Angels. As an attorney, he led the IP legal team for the life science tools group of Bio-Rad Laboratories, and was a life sciences patent litigator at Covington & Burling. Before law school Darren was a mechanical engineer developing cochlear implants at UCSF.