Luke Cooper
College or university of Law has announced that alumnus and Fixt founder and company government Luke Cooper L’01 will serve as its Graduation speaker on May possibly 6, 2022. Cooper is CEO of Latimer Ventures, a companion at San Francisco-centered Preface Ventures and the 2022 Checking out Scholar at the College of Maryland Baltimore, which encompasses Maryland’s law school, health-related college and other graduate courses.
“Luke has been a strategic planner, technological innovation innovator and product developer for much more than 20 a long time,” states Dean Craig M. Boise. “We are honored to welcome him back to Syracuse College and glance forward to hearing about his entrepreneurial successes and how his law degree from the Higher education of Legislation and own daily life activities have formed his management type and skilled pursuits.”
In a 2020 Tales Book report, Cooper credits Syracuse Legislation with developing skills in vital contemplating, analytical reasoning and advocacy that have fueled his successes. Importantly, Cooper is passionate about making numerous and inclusive operate cultures and lifting up Black business owners.
Cooper, who constructed and marketed his very first cyber startup to CACI in 2011, established the unit aid platform Fixt, which he offered to Assurant in 2020. He is only the next Black tech entrepreneur to see a company via to a thriving exit in Baltimore, Maryland. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the College of Maryland Baltimore Basis and has been appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan to provide on the board of administrators of Maryland’s TEDCO.
Cooper’s upcoming memoir—”Mud to Magic: A Black Tech Entrepreneur’s Inspiring Journey“ (2022)—will inform his life story and share his highly effective information, that displaying up as your most authentic self will drive the very best results.