Jeffrey (Jeff) Cooper is the Executive Director of the Richard Petritz Foundation, a private foundation of Colorado Springs. He is also a Principal of New Venture Resources, LLC, (“NVR”) , an investment and venture management firm with a 40 year track record in venture capital investing and entrepreneurship, primarily in technology-based businesses. In aggregate, NVR's portfolio of venture-backed companies has created thousands of jobs, has been valued in excess of $600,000,000 in market capitalization and has collectively raised more than $150,000,000 in follow-on investments.

Jeff has decades of experience in building Colorado’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, as a Co-Founder of the Colorado Springs Technology Incubator, Co-Founder of High Altitude Investors Angel Group and a Co-Founder of the Colorado Capital Alliance, Inc. (“CCA”) (1994), featured in the Wall Street Journal and Entrepreneur Magazine. As a pioneer in statewide Angel Networks, CCA was the winner of the Denver Business Journal’s “Most Innovative New Service in Colorado Award” (1997), and a recipient of the US SBA’s “Model of Excellence Award in Venture Capital” (1999). Jeff is co-author of “Business Angels: A Guide to Private Investing”, an original book published by CCA (1998) and distributed by the Kauffman Foundation and the Edward Lowe Foundation. CCA’s intellectual property was acquired by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (2003), and was foundational to the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership’s national Angel Education series.