Kristen Koh is a candid advisor for family firms. For the past two decades, Kristen has dedicated her time supporting family firms towards longevity without compromising quality.

Aside from advising other family firms, Kristen co-manages the direct private investments for her family office. Portfolio companies include HireAthena, AngelList, Salesforce, Twitter, Anaplan, Jet.com, Blue Bottle Coffee, August Home, and many others.

Prior to ATHENAPartners, Kristen was a buyside investment analyst for Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, formerly known as First Boston Asset Management. She was also the CFO of Loyalty Lab, now Tibco, and Director Finance of Epinions, now eBay, where she developed a deep expertise in financial operations. 

Kristen earned her Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and her Bachelor of Science from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration with a concentration in Finance & Accounting.

Kristen is an empowering advocate for ambitious entrepreneurs who strive to make a meaningful difference and the supporting operators who make it all possible.

Kristen, a mother of three, is passionate about empowering women in business and life. She is featured in a number of publications about working women and female empowerment, including A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug by Sarah Lacy, Geek Girl Rising: Inside The Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech by Heather Cabot & Samantha Walravens, and How Investors Like Melinda Gates Are Helping These VCs Tackle Tech’s Bro Problem by Michal Lev-Ram in Fortune Magazine.

Kristen's passion as an operator investor is to help promising companies clear the growth stage from 20 - 50 employees (Series A/B). Nascent startups must transition from maniacally building and scaling a product, to building a cross-functional team, a wildly different skill set. What makes a homogenous team successful in the early stages will fail in the latter stages when focus must transition from development to consolidation. Kristen guides startups to cross this chasm while looking out for blinders caused by paralyzing sexism, racism, and agism.