Steven Koch is managing partner of Bowline Group, LLLP, a family investment company. Previously he served as the Co-Executive Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer of Motivate, and was Deputy Mayor of Chicago from 2012 to 2017.

Prior to that, Koch spent 27 years at Credit Suisse, where he both led and was the co-chairman of the global mergers and acquisitions business. Under his leadership, the M&A business had over 400 professionals and peak yearly revenues of $2.5 billion.

Koch currently sits on the boards of the Chicago Community Trust, the Joyce Foundation, 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 is also on the board of Fast Radius, Inc. (public), Local Coho inc. (private), and CohesionIB (private). He helped develop and teaches in the Directors’ Consortium, a training seminar for directors of public companies, sponsored by the University of Chicago and Stanford University.

Koch holds a BA from Hampshire College, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a JD 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 has three grown children.