Darren Cooke is the Interim Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer at UC Berkeley and Executive Director of the university’s Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center. He previously chaired the Bio Track at Berkeley SkyDeck, the university’s startup accelerator.
A faculty member at the Haas School of Business, Darren teaches entrepreneurship both at Haas and through the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps programs. He’s also an investor and former Chair of Medical Device and Digital Health at Life Science Angels.
Earlier in his career, Darren led the intellectual property legal team for the life science tools group at Bio-Rad Laboratories and practiced as a life sciences patent litigator at Covington & Burling. Before attending law school, he worked as a mechanical engineer developing cochlear implants at UCSF.
