Steven Koch

Steven Koch is the Managing Partner of Bowline Group LP. He served as the interim CEO of Motivate, a leading bike share company in North America. He was deputy mayor of Chicago from 2012-2017, where he was responsible for economic development, planning, job creation and development, budget issues, municipal finance, and revenue. Prior to that, Steve 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 a wide variety of industries, which together comprised more than $1 trillion of transactions. 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. Steve 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.