Steve Koch
Steve Koch most recently served as the co-executive chairman and interim chief executive officer of Motivate, a leading bike-share company in North America. 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.
Before that, Koch spent 27 years at Credit Suisse. During his tenure at CS, he both ran 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 advised on landmark transactions in various industries comprising more than $1 trillion.
Koch has a long history of civic engagement. He is chair of the Board of the City Tech Collaborative and the Chicago River Task Force. He sits on the boards of the Chicago 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 also on the board of Local Coho Inc., and the advisory board of Fast Radius, Inc. He helped develop and teach in the Directors’ Consortium, a training seminar for directors of public companies sponsored by the University of Chicago and Stanford University. He is a life trustee of the Francis Parker School. He previously served as the board chair of the Sinai Health System of Chicago and the Greater Chicago Food Depository and co-chair of the Green Ribbon Committee on Sustainability and Climate Change of the City of Chicago. 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 US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.