Pete Cooper
Founder of A Coco Project
Pete Cooper
Founder of A Coco Project
Thailand
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2017 - Current
Volunteer role creating a new concept for community collaboration globally, starting with medical records for 3-4b people in developing countries. The goal is free open source personal, business and community technology on cloud and mobile phone for most of the planet starting with most mobile tech aware people and the lowest 5 billion people measured by GDP and health system country rankings. Coco is a community collaboration platform where you collect and control your personal information once and share selectively with businesses that need to know you. Basics are free for individuals and community service providers. Advanced features require a subscription and are useful for most retail businesses. Aim is to be a new SaaS Robin Hood folk story, effectively subsidised and sponsored by those that can afford it or want to support it to help those that need it most. Health in most developed countries is very doctor and hospital centric, while in developed countries they have less resources and tend to rely on local community more. Community nurses, neighbours and family caring for each other in a village, telemedicine to volunteer doctors etc. Starting with expats, digital nomads and travellers for services in health and retail enablement. This group can help validate and then reach into the main developing country markets. Read more at acoco.org now :-)
Director
1988
South East Asia. Previously Australia, Myanmar, Singapore now Thailand. Proud to help some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world. Business Technology Strategy & Execution. Investing time & capital in innovation. Helping build ecosystems that build and grow tech startups. Venture investments. Network insights. Strategic consulting. Early stage tech startups. Family offices. Corporate Venture Capital. Superannuation/retirement funds. Cooper & Co helps larger firms and tech startups with strategic innovation and major changes. From investment to acquisitions, spin offs and mergers through to new markets and turn arounds we specialise in mission critical business technology investment, strategy and management. We focus on practical value creation and protecting strategy, practical delivery and distinctive innovation. We are a unique, privately held investment and management consulting firm origin Sydney Australia. Cooper & Co has substantial blue chip experience globally and takes a mid to long term strategic value approach to consulting and investing our time, skill and funds. Our mid market and corporate customers (and candidate early to mid stage investments) typically have or are capable of global reach. We help develop and/or apply proven sustainable recent technology to clearly defined market segments with established and enduring needs. Focus areas are CEO mentoring in the new economy; internet, mobile, large scale and realtime technology; mergers and acquisitions; due diligence; acquisition integration; high growth firms/business unit transformation; strategy; alignment of technology with business strategy; expert witness; risk management; mediation; research and general consulting. Current projects including setting up a new portfolio holding company with subsidiaries in areas including ecommerce, digital payments, digital lending, chain retail, digital health, logistics, national physical security, sanitation, engineering, admin.
Founder
2009
Volunteer role. Helping 1,500+ technology entrepreneurs to help themselves and enable their ecosystem. As well as some projects for developing nations. Our latest products are - - cococard.org free open source health records; - ayeik.org food bank orchestration for developing countries impacted by the corona virus pandemic; - icentral.co a curated tech startup coworking community in the centre of Yangon. Previously we ran one of the largest tech startup communities in Australia near Sydney Town Hall. Currently closed due to pandemic. - yangon tech startups facebook group w 1,500 tech startup founders and team members and ecosystem advocates; We have also been recognised for our work. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coolest-people-in-australian-tech-2016-10#Pete-Cooper - Free specialist mentoring, events and online resources for tech startup founders aiming globally. Originally SydStart (sold, now StartCon) - Australia's largest tech startup and growth conference.
Mentor
2012
One of the largest and best accelerators for tech startups globally. One of the first to volunteer for the first local Australian branch of this 135 city global accelerator helping build better founders of tech startups using predictive data and local specialist mentors. Also did two years helping at Phandeeyar in Yangon which was the local representative of Founder Institute in Myanmar (Burma).
Mentor
2020 - 2020
Mentoring national and international tech startups addressing local issues in Myanmar around financial inclusion and education focused on women in regional areas and micro finance.
CIO
2017 - 2019
The bank was awarded best digital bank AND best domestic bank partly for my work. Best known for world record breaking KBZPay, one of the first super apps to reach this level. WeChatPay alternative for Myanmar since 2018, 15m users 300K merchants 60%+ GDP. KBZ is largest bank in Myanmar(Burma) and part of the Kanbawza (KBZ) Group which is recognised as the leading philanthropic organisation and one of largest privately-owned diversified group of companies. I led technology overall with a focus on transformation. An intense contract, high impact on national economy, aiming to underpin this emerging democracy. KBZ Bank are committed to bringing financial inclusion to Myanmar to help the most vulnerable citizens. 80K group staff across companies in mining, banking(20K), aviation, insurance, manufacturing, agriculture, real estate, trading, healthcare, tourism and hospitality. Core principle is centred on strengthening Myanmar and its people. Free wifi for townships and villages; rolled out Myanmar's first biometric banking services; exclusive partnership with HuaWei to bring mobile money to Myanmar via 50,000 local agents and merchants. Australian Department Foreign Affairs: Australia is committed to reducing poverty in Myanmar and supporting its transition to democracy. Myanmar is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia and has some of the lowest social development indicators in the region. 25% of its estimated 55m people live in poverty. 10% of Myanmar people do not have enough food. 50% of all children in Myanmar complete primary school. 10% children die before the age of five and health outcomes are near worst in region large numbers of people dying from easily preventable illness and disease. Australia has responsibility & capacity as a regional neighbour of Myanmar to help alleviate poverty, one of the largest donors to Myanmar focus: health, education and livelihoods, and reform process, is making a significant contribution to millions of lives.
Mentor
2017 - 2019
One of the world’s best accelerators and communities for tech startups. Have been an advocate since inception and now volunteer mentor.
Mentor
2014 - 2016
One of Australia's best known tech startup accelerator programs, Muru-D is a unique corporate to community engagement program run by Telstra (Australia's largest telecommunications company) . I was one of the first to volunteer to help get it started.
eHealth Implementation Task Force Steering Committee
2015 - 2016
Technology and innovation focus in this oversight group (pseudo board) bringing together the national digital health assets and standing them up into a new consolidated entity call the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADH/ADHA) for 25m Australians. A excellent lesson :-) in so many ways.
Regional Director
2014 - 2015
I sold SydStart to Freelancer.com and it is now called StartCon. Freelancer.com ASX:FLN is the world's largest freelancing, outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace. Currently hosting around 40m users globally. Australasia lead executive and part of international executive.
Education
Bachelor
1984 - 1987
Templeton College Executive Course
2004 - 2004
Residential Management
2000 - 2000
Higher School Certificate
1982 - 1983
School Certificate
1972 - 1981
Post Grad
1998 - 1998
Post Grad
1995 - 1995