After over 20 years of fundraising experience, Rob has been promoted to Senior Vice President & Chief Philanthropy Officer of the Cooper Foundation. Rob joined the Cooper Foundation in January 2020 as their Vice President of Development. The Cooper Foundation serves as the philanthropic, community outreach and community development arm of the Cooper Health System.Robert A. Ortiz, Jr. is the former Director of Gift Planning for the East region of the United States for the University of Notre Dame located in South Bend, Indiana. He worked with Notre Dame alumni, parents, and friends having an interest in deferred and structured contributions to Notre Dame, including estate and trust gifts, gifts of real estate, and gifts of privately held business interests. He is the former Academic Advancement Director for the Law School at the University of Notre Dame.He is a former Partner of the law firm of Florio, Perrucci, Steinhardt and Fader in New Jersey.In 2008, the New Jersey Law Journal selected Rob to its list of “40 under 40”. According to the Law Journal’s publisher, the 40 lawyers on the list are people under the age of 40 who are “worth watching not only for what they have achieved so far in their careers but more so for the potential they show to be among the leaders of the New Jersey bar in the next decade.”Rob is also a former Visiting Associate to the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Rob is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Boy Scouts of America, Northern New Jersey Council. He also served as Corporate Counsel for the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey from 2004 to 2006.Mr. Ortiz received his undergraduate degree in Government and International Relations with a concentration in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Notre Dame in 1994 and his Juris Doctorate from Villanova University's Charles Widger School of Law in 1997.