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Wayne is Co-Chairman of Pyramid Research and a member of its board of directors. He is also a managing director of Greenhaven Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in the media and information markets. In this capacity, he serves as an advisor and member of the board of directors of several media and information companies.
Prior to Greenhaven Partners, Wayne was the CEO of Kennedy Information, a publishing and information company serving the professional services markets (now owned by The Bureau of National Affairs) and the Chairman and CEO of Vizium, a marketing services company (which is now part of Carat Interactive).
From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Cooper was a consultant for Monitor Company, a strategy consulting firm founded by Professor Michael Porter (author of Competitive Strategy and Competitive Advantage) in Cambridge, Massachussetts, Milan, Seoul and Los Angeles. At Monitor, he specialized in strategy development for telecommunications and information/media companies and became Chairman of its West Coast practice. Mr. Cooper also spent several years as a consultant with Bain & Company and before that worked for The World Bank and Goldman, Sachs.
Mr. Cooper holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics with Honors from Stanford University.
Wayne serves on the boards of several non-profits including The Well School, Mondadnock Business Ventures (a local job creation incubator) and The Newsletter and Electronic Publishers Association. He is also active in Young President’s Organization and various organizations that promote tolerance education throughout the world.
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