Bio

Chris Kochard joined KBW in 2012 and serves as a Vice President in the firm’s depository investment banking group. He is based in KBW’s Richmond, VA office and is responsible for merger & acquisitions, strategic advisory and private and public capital markets transactions for financial services businesses based in the Southeast. He has advised on more than 80 M&A and capital transactions with an aggregate transaction value in excess of $15 billion. Chris graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Systems Engineering and a BA in Economics with a concentration in finance.