Coriell Board of Trustees
Louis Bezich is Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Cooper University Health Care. Mr. Bezich has more than 40 years of senior management experience including leadership positions in county and municipal government, higher education, and the private sector. He joined Cooper in 2011 and is responsible for government and community relations, real estate, and military services. He served as Cooper’s administrative lead for its Covid-19 response, and for Cooper’s recent acquisition of Cape Regional Medical Center.
Mr. Bezich is vice chair of the Rowan University/Rutgers-Camden Board of Governors, and board chair of the Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Coriell Institute and the Camden Community Partnership. Mr. Bezich is also president of the board of Cooper Lanning Square Renaissance School Facilities, an affiliate of the KIPP Cooper Norcross Renaissance Schools.
From 2002 to 2020, he served as chair of the Camden Higher Education and Health Care Task Force and is former chairman of the Camden Special Services District Advisory Board. From 2001 to 2009, Mr. Bezich was president of the Board of Education of the Camden County Technical School District. He is past president of the Boy Scout Councils of Camden County and Southern New Jersey and is the recipient of their Silver Beaver and Distinguished Citizen Awards for community service.
Mr. Bezich is an adjunct professor in the Graduate Department of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers University-Camden and has served as an adjunct in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Tampa. He has previously taught at Camden County College and Rowan University.
Bezich is the author of two books, Saving Men From Themselves and Crack The Code.
He is a contributing author to Corporate Lawbreaking and Interactive Compliance, edited by Jay A. Sigler and Joseph E. Murphy, a contributing writer on men’s health for PhillyVoice.com, and a regular guest on This Is It TV with Cheldin Bartlatt Rumer. His TED Talk Unleash Your Emotional Force to Live Healthy and Happy, was featured at TEDx Cape May in 2025.
Mr. Bezich holds a master’s degree in public policy from Rutgers University, a bachelor’s degree in social science from the University of Tampa and is a graduate of Harvard University’s Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government. He resides in Haddon Township, NJ with his wife Maria and has two adult sons, Anthony, and Stephen and two grandchildren, Luca, and Brayleigh.
