A proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Jim Koehr has been growing as an entrepreneur and investor since 2001 when he left life as a corporate IT, Sales, Quality, Planning and Operations Vice President to run without a net. Since then, while running his own Manufacturer’s Representative agency to supply toilet paper and paper towels to very large distributors nationwide, he has founded or acquired numerous entrepreneurial ventures that became the largest commercial flooring company in central Virginia, real estate investment companies in the Shenandoah Valley, Northern Virginia and Richmond, VA, three real estate services firms. His real estate investment activities involve more than 100 separate properties.

At 50 years old, Jim completed an Executive MBA in the top 10% of his class at the Darden Graduate School of Business at University of Virginia. Out of Darden, Jim formed a small venture capital firm called Sorin Angel Capital that focuses on investments in seed-stage companies. Sorin Angel Capital has made more than 100 investments in early-stage companies across nine (9) Funds. Jim has served on the Board for numerous these companies representing investments by the New Dominion Angels and the IrishAngels. He also served as an independent director for Clean Earth, a portfolio company of the public private equity firm Compass Diversified

Holdings. Jim is very active in school and community. He has coached eleven (11) Virginia State Championship high school swimming teams, was recognized by the VISAA with their silver anniversary legacy award for his “vision, dedication, and enduring contributions to the VISAA during its first 25 years”, earned the Outstanding Educator award from the Virginia Governors School for his work as a high school math teacher at Seton School, and serves (served) as Chairman of three charitable foundations. Jim is also a founding member and the treasurer of the BVM Foundation, a group that purchased the assets and real estate of the Manassas abortion clinic and helped Catholic Charities redeem it into the Mother of Mercy Free Medical Clinic. Married 41 years to his college sweetheart from the University of Notre Dame, Jim and Colleen have 12 children, one of whom is a Catholic Priest, six of whom (plus one son-in-law) are or were military officers deployed into harm’s way, and nine of whom are Eagle Scouts. Jim and Colleen also proudly have their 19th grandchild on the way.

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