Chase Koch Biography
Chase Koch is an American business executive and major political donor. He is the son of Liz Koch and Charles Koch, an American businessman, political donor and philanthropist.
Koch attended Wichita Collegiate School. He then graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S.
Chase Koch Age
Koch was born in 1977 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. He is 39 years old as of 2019.
Chase Koch Family
Koch is named after his grandfather and father. He is the grandson of Fred C. Koch and Mary Robinson. Chase’s great-grandfather, Harry Koch, was a Dutch immigrant, who founded the Quanah Tribune-Chief newspaper and was a founding shareholder of Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway.
He is the nephew of Frederick Koch who is an American collector and philanthropist , the eldest of the four sons born to American industrialist Fred Chase Koch.
His uncle Bill Koch is an American billionaire businessman, sailor, and collector. Bill’s boat was the winner of the America’s Cup in 1992.
His uncle David Koch was an American businessman, philanthropist, political activist, and chemical engineer. He died on August 23, 2019.
Koch is the cousin of John Mark Koch, David Koch Jr., and Mary Julia Koch.
Chase Koch Parents | Chase Koch Father
Chase is the only son of Charles Koch and Liz Koch. His father Charles Koch, is an American businessman, and political donor. He has been co-owner, chairman, and chief executive officer of Koch Industries since 1967.
As of March 2019, Charles Koch was ranked as the 11th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $50.5 billion.
Chase Koch Siblings
Koch has an older sister Elizabeth Koch who is a publisher and writer. Elizabeth has published work for One Story, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Columbia Journalism Review, the New York Observer and other publications.
Chase Koch Wife
Koch married Annie Breitenbach, a nurse in 2010 and together they have one child. The couple live on a 70 acre property in Wichita, Kansas that Koch purchased for $3 million in 2010.
Chase Koch Net Worth
Chase has an estimated net worth of $3 million. He Shares family net worth of US$88 billion. His father, Charles Koch, has an estimated net worth of US$50.5 billion.
Chase Koch Business Career
Chase was appointed President of Koch Fertilizer, a multi-billion dollar subsidiary of his father’s company Koch Industries in December 2013 after serving in other business units. In 2018, he founded and became the president of Koch Disruptive Technologies.
Political Donor
Koch was schooled in conservative politics by his father, Charles Koch, and has increasingly become involved in his father and uncle’s sprawling political activities. Chase is taking an active role spearheading the effort to organise the children of conservative billionaires into a political network to replace their ageing parents and grandparents. Koch donates funds to politicians regularly, recently to a politician favouring letting Texas chemical facilities to keep secret the contents of their plants, only months after an ammonium nitrate explosion killed 15 people. In 2018, Politico reported that Koch “wants to steer the conservative juggernaut his family created toward a kinder, gentler libertarianism”.
Death of Zachary Siebert
In 1996, at the age 16, Chase was convicted of misdemeanor vehicular homicide after hitting and killing twelve-year-old Zachary Siebert at a cross-walk after running a red light in Wichita. Koch was sentenced to 18 months of probation, 100 hours of community service, ordered to take a defensive driving course and ordered to pay for the boy’s funeral.