Mr. Koski is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Guggenheim Transparent Value, LLC and its subsidiaries,
and a Managing Director of Guggenheim Investment Management, LLC. He directs Transparent
Value’s business development, marketing, and distribution activities and contributes
to Transparent Value product development initiatives. He is also a member of the
board of Guggenheim Transparent Value, LLC.
Mr. Koski has 20 years of experience in corporate finance, asset management, and
investment banking.
Before co-founding Transparent Value in 2003, he co-founded (with Inc. Magazine)
Financial Resource Group LLC, a boutique investment banking and private equity firm
specializing in providing corporate finance and capital formation services to emerging-growth
companies, including early-stage financial service, healthcare, and media companies.
In 1984, Mr. Koski emigrated from South Africa to the United States and founded
Financial Feasibilities. From 1984 to 1988, Mr. Koski co-authored CFO Advisor, a
corporate finance advisory publication and service designed to help companies identify
value-building opportunities. During his tenure at Financial Feasibilities, he was
retained by the accounting firm Laventhol & Horwath to provide corporate finance
advisory services to its clients. In 1990, Ernst & Young acquired the CFO Advisor
methodology and hired Mr. Koski to establish a corporate finance and investment
analysis service. More than 400 Ernst & Young partners were trained to implement
this methodology throughout Ernst & Young’s various practice areas, including its
auditing, financial advisory and entrepreneurial services.
Mr. Koski has given lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at
industry conferences on topics relating to business valuation, performance measurement,
and value-based compensation methodologies. At the University of Witwatersrand (South
Africa), Mr. Koski studied in the field of Accountancy and while attending the University
of South Africa, he majored in Commerce.
