Jennifer A. Cooper

Jennifer A. Cooper, CFA, CEBS joined IFS in September of 2007 as Vice President of Business Development. She brings to the firm 20 years of hands-on experience in the institutional investor community. Ms. Cooper began her professional career with the Houston Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund where she served as Executive Director. She was responsible for the investment, administrative, legislative, actuarial, and public relations programs for a $1.6 billion retirement system. In 1996 she founded Cooper Consultants, an independent firm that provided niche consulting services to public and private defined benefit and defined contribution funds, endowments, non-profit organizations, and foundations. In 2002, Ms. Cooper closed Cooper Consultants to new business and founded the non-profit Global Renewal Foundation, where she served as CFO until May of 2007.