Don V. Cogman
Currently Chairman of CC Investments, a private investment firm in Scottsdale, Arizona, Mr. Cogman is a former communications, public affairs and advertising executive, working in New York and Washington for thirty years. Additionally, he currently serves as Chairman of two non-profit foundation boards.
Mr. Cogman is the former President and Chief Operating Officer World-wide of Burson-Marsteller, a New York based international marketing communications and public relations firm. He also served as Executive Vice-President of Young & Rubicam, a global advertising company in New York. Prior to his New York experience, he spent nearly twenty years in Washington D.C., first as an Administrative Assistant to U.S. Senator Dewey F. Bartlett in the early 70's, followed by a career with MAPCO, Inc., an Oklahoma based energy company, where he served as Vice-President of Government and Public Affairs, directing their Washington office.
Mr. Cogman currently serves as Chairman of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Education Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Partnership for Gender Specific Medicine at Columbia University, Member of the Executive Committee and Board of The Acting Company in New York, and is a Presidential Appointee to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Arts.
He is a native of Oklahoma, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma.