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Chase Koch
Charles Chase Koch (/koʊk/ KOHK; born June 15, 1977), is an American businessman and the son of Charles Koch, the co-owner, CEO, and chairman of Koch Industries. Koch directs the venture capital company Koch Disruptive Technologies, and is a leading figure in Koch Industries and the family's philanthropic activities.
Koch, who is named after his grandfather and father, was born on June 15, 1977 and raised in Wichita, Kansas, by his parents, Charles and Liz. Every Sunday, Charles Koch would educate Chase and his sister Elizabeth about his value system, libertarian economics, and philosophy. According to a 2018 profile in Politico, Chase's interest in education is rooted in that childhood tutoring, which involved listening to recordings of F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman and discussing “values like courage and equal rights.”
Chase played basketball at the local YMCA and attended Wichita Collegiate School. In his teens, he worked on his family's ranches. His first job, at age 15, was at Koch's feed yard in Syracuse, Kansas, where he spent the summer digging post holes and shoveling bovine ordure. He later said that although "I hated Koch Industries at the time," the experience taught him "a critical life lesson about the importance of hard work."
In September 1993, at age 16, Koch ran a red light, hitting twelve-year-old Zachary Seibert with his car. Zachary died shortly thereafter at a local hospital. Chase pled guilty to a charge of misdemeanor vehicular homicide and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and 18 months of probation.
Koch graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in marketing. Koch has spoken of his upbringing in a variety of public speeches.
After graduating, he played in a band that covered songs by Led Zeppelin, Phish, and the Grateful Dead while trying to navigate his way into Austin's tech startup scene without exploiting his family connections. He told an audience in 2015 that he had seriously considered not pursuing a career in the family business.
At age 25 or 26, Koch returned to Wichita, where he began to work for Koch Industries. During the next few years, he worked in a series of high-level positions at the company.
In 2006, Koch began working for Koch Nitrogen Company, working as a regional manager and in global supply. He was appointed president of Koch Fertilizer in 2013 and later named executive vice president of Koch Agronomic Services. As of 2016, he was president of Koch Agronomic Services.
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Chase Koch
Charles Chase Koch (/koʊk/ KOHK; born June 15, 1977), is an American businessman and the son of Charles Koch, the co-owner, CEO, and chairman of Koch Industries. Koch directs the venture capital company Koch Disruptive Technologies, and is a leading figure in Koch Industries and the family's philanthropic activities.
Koch, who is named after his grandfather and father, was born on June 15, 1977 and raised in Wichita, Kansas, by his parents, Charles and Liz. Every Sunday, Charles Koch would educate Chase and his sister Elizabeth about his value system, libertarian economics, and philosophy. According to a 2018 profile in Politico, Chase's interest in education is rooted in that childhood tutoring, which involved listening to recordings of F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman and discussing “values like courage and equal rights.”
Chase played basketball at the local YMCA and attended Wichita Collegiate School. In his teens, he worked on his family's ranches. His first job, at age 15, was at Koch's feed yard in Syracuse, Kansas, where he spent the summer digging post holes and shoveling bovine ordure. He later said that although "I hated Koch Industries at the time," the experience taught him "a critical life lesson about the importance of hard work."
In September 1993, at age 16, Koch ran a red light, hitting twelve-year-old Zachary Seibert with his car. Zachary died shortly thereafter at a local hospital. Chase pled guilty to a charge of misdemeanor vehicular homicide and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and 18 months of probation.
Koch graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in marketing. Koch has spoken of his upbringing in a variety of public speeches.
After graduating, he played in a band that covered songs by Led Zeppelin, Phish, and the Grateful Dead while trying to navigate his way into Austin's tech startup scene without exploiting his family connections. He told an audience in 2015 that he had seriously considered not pursuing a career in the family business.
At age 25 or 26, Koch returned to Wichita, where he began to work for Koch Industries. During the next few years, he worked in a series of high-level positions at the company.
In 2006, Koch began working for Koch Nitrogen Company, working as a regional manager and in global supply. He was appointed president of Koch Fertilizer in 2013 and later named executive vice president of Koch Agronomic Services. As of 2016, he was president of Koch Agronomic Services.