Karen Kochevar Biography and Net Worth

Karen Kochevar has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2016. Since 2015, Ms. Kochevar has served as an independent board director for private equity-owned growth companies in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Ms. Kochevar was a Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Union Square Hospitality Group (“USHG”), the parent company and creator of Shake Shack and several other hospitality businesses, from 2011 until her retirement from the company in 2014. Before that time, she served in finance and corporate development leadership roles at USHG from 2005 to 2011. Prior to her career in hospitality, Ms. Kochevar worked in financial services for more than a decade, including in private equity at Warburg Pincus and Three Cities Research (an affiliate of Quilvest), and in investment banking at Lehman Brothers. Ms. Kochevar currently serves as a trustee of the Brown Brothers Harriman U.S. mutual fund complex. Ms. Kochevar received her A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University and her M.B.A., with distinction in Finance, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.