University Lab Partners

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CEO/Executive Director

Karin Koch

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Karin Koch is an experienced public-service leader with a demonstrated history of working in local government administration and economic development. After a successful exit from her first start-up in the cosmetics industry early on in her career, Karin has worked intensively with multiple Fortune 500s until she found her passion through public service. She transitioned into the management of local economic and workforce development programs for the County of Orange, overseeing the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 2019-2023 and Business Services for the Orange County region. After 11 years of public service, she joined the Beall Family Foundation in 2019 to serve as the Executive Director of University Lab Partners (ULP), the first nonprofit life sciences wet lab incubator in Orange County, California, enabling life science innovation through access to state-of the-art research capabilities and a network of technical and business resources. Today, she oversees the incubation and acceleration of over 45+ life science start-ups at ULP. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Arizona State University and became a proud University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy alum in 2017 with a Master of Public Administration.

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