Surface Ophthalmics

Leadership

Scott Cooper

Chief Financial Advisor

Scott Cooper has spent nearly his entire career in financial and accounting positions at high technology and life science companies in Silicon Valley and Orange County, California and has worked at ophthalmic medical device and pharmaceutical companies for most of that time.  He currently operates his own part-time Chief Financial Officer and Business Development consulting business, Oso Creek Consulting.   In 2015, Scott joined Allegro Ophthalmics, LLC as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development and helped Allegro complete an option purchase transaction with Bausch Health in 2020.  Scott joined WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc. in 2007 prior to the company’s commercialization of its product and helped guide the company through the development and commercialization stages that ultimately led to the sale of WaveTec to Alcon, a division of Novartis, in 2014.  Prior to joining WaveTec, he was Corporate Controller at IntraLase Corp. during a period of rapid growth from a private company through IPO to the ultimate sale of the company to Advanced Medical Optics (now Johnson and Johnson). Scott has held several other financial management positions and began his career in public accounting at KPMG. He is a Certified Public Accountant, holds a BS degree (Business Administration) from Cal Poly and has an MBA from the University of Michigan.