Steven Koch
Steven Koch is managing partner of Bowline Group, LLP, a family investment company. He most recently served as the Co-Executive Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer of Motivate. He served as the Deputy Mayor of Chicago from September, 2012 to August, 2017. His responsibilities included economic development, planning, job creation and development, budget issues, municipal finance, and revenue. Prior to that, Koch spent 27 years at Credit Suisse. During his tenure at CS, he both led and was the co-chairman of the global mergers and acquisitions business.
Koch has a long history of civic engagement. He currently chairman of the One Illinois Fund and sits on the boards of the Chicago Community Trust, the Joyce Foundation, the New York Community Trust, mHUB, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, Navy Pier Inc., The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Naturally Chicago, The Southland Development Authority, The James Beard Foundation and the visiting committee of the University of Chicago Law School. He is co-managing partner of the mHUB Product Impact Fund, LP. He has served on public and private company boards and is currently on the board of CohesionIB (private). He helped develop and teaches in the Directors’ Consortium, a training seminar for directors of public companies, sponsored by Stanford University. He is a life trustee of the Francis Parker School. Koch is also a member of SLoFIG and the Hyde Park Angels.
Koch received his BA from Hampshire College, his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his JD, cum laude, from the University of Chicago Law School. He was a Henry Luce Fellow and served as a law clerk for Judge Richard Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Koch is married to Sharon Greenberger and has five grown children.