Managing Directors

Mr. Koch is a Managing Director based in New York. Prior to joining USRG, Mr. Koch was COO for Visible Path, a Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers funded application service provider. He was the founder and CEO of Sundial, a leader in provisioning utility services online. Sundial was acquired by Essential.com, an early entrant into retail power marketing and telecommunications, and later sold to Simplexity. Prior to founding Sundial, Mr. Koch was a Business Development Manager at General Electric Power Systems ("GEPS"). Prior to GEPS, Mr. Koch spent more than five years with Booz, Allen & Hamilton consulting on large M&A transactions in the energy and life sciences sectors and advising the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") on policy issues in the Superfund, Clean Air and Drinking Water divisions.

Mr. Koch is active in the management of U.S. Biodiesel Group, LLC and Pipestem Energy Group, LLC. Mr. Koch holds a joint MBA and MS in Resource Policy from the University of Michigan and a BA from Tufts University.