Chase Koch

Chase Koch, Executive Vice President of Origination and Partnerships—As a child, Chase was an average student who slept through his father’s Sunday afternoon philosophy lessons. He is the only Koch executive to ever fire himself from a role as president of a Koch company. But after discovering his strengths as a builder rather than an operator, he founded Koch Disruptive Technologies to invest in companies that are helping Koch transform. KDT gave rise to “Koch Labs”—an application of the Republic of Science principle—accelerating the company’s transformations. His role has expanded to include building partnerships that will help Koch endure. Today, his North Star is uniting and empowering people to create disruptive solutions.