David H. Koch is an executive vice president and a board member of Koch Industries, Inc., which owns a diverse group of companies involved in refining, chemicals and biofuels; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; minerals; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; commodity trading and services; forest and consumer products; and ranching. Based in Wichita, Kan., with annual revenues of about $100 billion, Koch Industries has about 67,000 employees and a presence in nearly 60 countries. Since 2003, Koch companies have invested about $45 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures. Familiar Koch companies’ brands include STAINMASTERÒ carpet, LYCRAÒ fiber, Quilted NorthernÒ tissue and the DixieÒ brand of tabletop products.

Mr. Koch, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries.

Koch Chemical Technology Group serves municipalities, oil refineries and chemical plants around the globe with research and development, manufacturing and sales of process and pollution control equipment. This group employs about 5,000 people and includes these businesses:
• Koch-Glitsch, LP (Wichita, Kan.)
• Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.)
• Koch Heat Transfer Company, LP (Houston)
• John Zink Company (Tulsa, Okla.)
• Optimized Process Designs, Inc. (Houston)

Prior to joining Koch Industries in 1970, Mr. Koch worked as a research engineer and process design engineer for Amicon Corporation, in Cambridge, Mass.; Arthur D. Little, Inc., also in Cambridge, Mass.; and Halcon International, Inc. and its affiliate, the Scientific Design Company in New York City.

A long-time philanthropist, Mr. Koch has given generously to a variety of organizations and programs for nearly three decades. Since 2000, he and the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation have pledged or contributed more than $750 million to further cancer research, enhance medical centers, support educational institutions, sustain arts and cultural institutions, and conduct public policy studies.

Mr. Koch was the prime supporter of The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, which opened March 2011. His other contributions to MIT have established the Koch Biology Building and The David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice.

Mr. Koch’s 2007 donation to the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center created the David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers. In 2006, The David H. Koch Cancer Research Center on Johns Hopkins University's East Baltimore medical campus was dedicated, honoring Mr. Koch for his $20 million commitment to the center. In 2005, Mr. Koch received a presidential appointment to the National Cancer Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute, serving until March 2010 when his term expired.

Mr. Koch committed $100 million to the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in 2008. The theater houses both the New York City Ballet and the New York City Opera and has been renamed the David H. Koch Theater.

A $15 million gift to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., created the 15,000-square-foot David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, dedicated to the discovery and understanding of human origins. The hall opened in March 2010. In 2006, Mr. Koch gave $20 million to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to support the dinosaur exhibits, creating the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing.

In 2011, Mr. Koch received the Humanitarian Award from the American Apparel & Footwear Association, and he has been recognized by The New York Academy of Medicine for his support of biomedical research, healthcare and education. His corporate leadership has been honored by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Double Helix award in 2007, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Excellence in Corporate Leadership award in 2005 and the prestigious Corporate Citizenship Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2004. Other recognition includes the Manhattan Republican Party's Business Statesman of the Year award (2002) and the Entrepreneurial Leadership Award (1994) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (2001) from the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Koch has also been active in the public policy field, serving on the boards of the Cato Institute, the Reason Foundation, and Americans for Prosperity Foundation. These organizations are focused on applying market-based concepts to enhance peace, prosperity and social progress.

Director, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., New York, New York
Member, Board of Directors, The Economic Club of New York, New York
Member, Board of Trustees, The Allen-Stevenson School, New York
Member, Board of Trustees, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Governor, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York
Member, Board of Trustees, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Member, Board of Visitors, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
Member, Board of Trustees, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Member, Board of Directors, Rockefeller University, New York
Member, Board of Trustees, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles
Member, Board of Associates, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
Honorary Member, Board of Trustees, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
Life Member of the Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
Member, Board of Trustees, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Member, Board of Trustees, The Prostate Cancer Foundation, Los Angeles
Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, American Ballet Theatre, New York
Member, Board of Directors, American Museum of Natural History, New York
Member, Board of Trustees, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington
Member, Board of Directors, Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colo.
Member, Board of Directors, Institute of Human Origins, Phoenix, Ariz.
Member, Board of Trustees, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Channel 13, New York
Member, Board of Overseers, WGBH, Channel 2, Boston, Mass.
Member, James Madison Council, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Koch was born in Wichita, Kansas. He and his wife, Julia, have three children.

February 2012