for finished/value-added goods and services). Specific asset and income protection insurance coverages offered to clients include: Trade Disruption Insurance, Marine Insurance and Trade Credit Insurance. Mr. Koch is a registered broker/producer for Trade Credit (Accounts Receivable) Insurance underwritten by The Export-Import Bank of the United States, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Euler Hermes ACI, Coface of North America, Foreign Credit Insurance Association, AIG Global Trade & Political Risk Division and Atradius Trade Credit. He also works with various Lloyds of London syndicates to provide Trade Disruption Insurance, covering primarily U.S. importers. In addition, he assists his clients with export trade financing using the programs of the Export-Import Bank of the United States , the Small Business Administration and other U.S. and foreign trade support institutions. World Trade Consult, LLC provides its services to all size companies nationwide.

Prior to his current duties, Mr. Koch was a commercial banker for 26 years, having developed and funded over $6 billion in trade and commercial finance, primarily export sales of his U.S.-based exporting clients. After establishing and managing the International Banking Group of SunTrust Banks of Florida, he went on to be elected President/Director of Southern Commerce Bank (Tampa, Florida) and United American Bank (Memphis, Tennessee), the latter now Regions Bank. In addition to his 35 years experience working with the export programs of the Export-Import Bank of the United States , Mr. Koch is also experienced in using the loan programs of the Small Business Administration. His International Banking Group of SunBanks of Florida earned the E-Service Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1985.

Mr. Koch is an expert in Credit Policy, Credit Underwriting, Credit Risk Management, Trade Finance and Trade Chain Asset Protection. He received his
B.S. in International Economic Affairs from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University , Washington D.C. He later earned his MBA from the John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business Administration, Duquesne University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . Mr. Koch is also a Certified Credit Executive (CCE), the highest credit professional recognition governed by the National Association of Credit Management (NACM). In addition, he is also a Certified International Credit Executive (CICE), the highest credit professional recognition governed by FCIB, a global association of executives in Finance, Credit & International Business. There are only 18 credit executives worldwide that hold the CICE designation, and there are fewer than 8 credit executives worldwide that hold both the CCE and CICE professional designations. He regularly writes articles covering Trade Finance and Trade Credit Insurance published in trade journals and is often a speaker for NACM Industry Credit Groups as well as for other Trade Associations, banks and universities. Multilingual, Mr. Koch has traveled to and done business in over 43 countries.