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The Koch family (/ k oʊ k / KOHK) is an American family engaged in business, best known for their political activities and their control of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately owned company in the United States (with 2019 revenues of $115 billion). [1]
Roy I. Davidovitch is the current Julia Koch Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and director of NYU Langone's Hip Center. [28] In 2024, she donated $75 million to NYU Langone through the Julia Koch Family Foundation for the construction of the Julia Koch Family Ambulatory Care Center, a medical office tower in West Palm Beach, Florida. [29]
David Hamilton Koch (/ k oʊ k / KOHK; May 3, 1940 – August 23, 2019) was an American businessman, political activist, philanthropist, and chemical engineer. In 1970, he joined the family business: Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States.
Wood River Oil and Refining Company was renamed Koch Industries in 1968 in honor of Fred Koch, the year after his death. [27] [28] At that time, it was primarily an engineering firm with a 35% interest in Great Northern Oil Company, which owned the Pine Bend Refinery in Minnesota, a crude oil-gathering system in Oklahoma, [16] and some cattle ...
Koch has been married to his wife Liz since 1972. [1] He has two children, Chase Koch and Elizabeth Koch. [69] [2] [86] Charles and his three brothers have all suffered from prostate cancer. [87] Koch "rarely grants media interviews and prefers to keep a low profile". [22] Time magazine included Charles and David Koch among the most influential ...
Frederick Robinson Koch (/ k oʊ k / KOHK; August 26, 1933 – February 12, 2020) [1] was an American collector and philanthropist, the eldest of the four sons born to American industrialist Fred Chase Koch, founder of what is now Koch Industries, and Mary Clementine (née Robinson) Koch.
Fred Chase Koch (/ k oʊ k / KOHK; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which – under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David – would be listed by Forbes as the second-largest privately held company in the ...
The Koch family foundations began in 1953 with the establishment of the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation. [103] In 1980, Charles Koch established the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, with the stated purpose of advancing social progress and well-being through the development, application and dissemination of "the Science of Liberty".