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Mr. Cooper joined BioMarin in October 2003 as vice president, controller, and was promoted to the position of chief financial officer in August 2005. Prior to BioMarin, he served as vice president of finance at Matrix Pharmaceutical where he worked for six years. Earlier in his career, Mr. Cooper held numerous finance-related positions within the health care and pharmaceutical industries, including corporate controller at Foundation Health Systems and director of business analysis at Syntex Corporation, a company he worked for from 1983 to 1995. Mr. Cooper, a certified public accountant, earned a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. | 