Jack Koch
Partner
Series 7
Mr. Koch is a Partner at Park Madison Partners focused on institutional investor relationships, capital advisory, and sourcing best-in-class investment managers.
Prior to joining Park Madison Partners, Mr. Koch was a Partner at the Townsend Group where he led the Firm’s global advisory and consulting practice. Further, as a Townsend Executive Committee member he was deeply involved in firm strategy and product development. Mr. Koch was the lead Partner on several of Townsend’s most active and sophisticated institutional clients. His consulting responsibilities included creating and implementing real asset investment policies, strategies and guidelines; advising on real asset structures across a broad range of risk/return objectives; manager selection and due diligence; as well as performance analytics and monitoring. Mr. Koch began his finance and investment career at National City Bank where he was an Account Officer.
Mr. Koch received a B.A. from Lafayette College and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.
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Which past experiences prepared you best for your role at Park Madison?
Prior to Park Madison, I led the Global Consulting Practice at Townsend Group, a preeminent institutional real estate consulting and investment firm. Providing strategic real estate investment advice to pension plans, endowments/foundations, ultra-high net worth, and sovereign wealth funds, was a key steppingstone to joining Park Madison. The “hats” I wore at Townsend, whether it be investment origination, underwriting, strategic planning, research, management or even public speaking all provided me with the ability to grow in my career. Having intimate knowledge of how institutional investors approach portfolio construction and investing is critical to our clients’ success.
What differentiates Park Madison from other placement firms?
Park Madison is grounded as an entrepreneurial firm, 100% employee-owned, with a successful track record of raising significant real estate institutional capital on behalf of our clients. That is all we do. We wake up every day with fundraising in mind and we succeed. Why? Our industry tenure with diverse prior investment experiences. Collectively the senior team has over 100+ years of industry experience and we’ve sat in the chairs of most stakeholders around the table. Prior experiences as consultants, buy side, sell side, and even principal investors, allows us to really understand different perspectives and bridge the gap.
When you're not at the office, what are you usually doing?
Outside of the office, it’s usually family time. You’ll typically find my wife and I on the sidelines of a football or soccer field, or courtside somewhere at a tennis tournament. As my kids are getting older, the travel list is growing, and hoping to someday soon start crossing these destinations off, one by one!