OUR TEAM

Senior practitioners across strategy, transactions, operations, and growth.

Premia brings together executives and advisors who have worked inside the businesses, assets, and markets our clients are evaluating.

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OPERATING LEADERSHIP

Clear roles. Direct accountability.

Premia’s operating and management control is held by Olga Koecher. Client mandates are assigned to designated senior professionals who are directly accountable for their execution.

M&A • Financial analysis • Transaction strategy

Bryan Taylor

Co-Founder

Bryan is an M&A executive with 30 years of experience helping companies pursue acquisitions, divestitures, and other complex transactions. During 22 years in corporate development at CenturyLink and its predecessor, he participated in transactions representing more than $80 billion in aggregate value.

His experience includes the acquisitions of Qwest, Embarq, and Savvis, as well as transactions and strategies spanning cloud, cybersecurity, IT services, broadband infrastructure, communications, spectrum, and wireless assets. In 2022, Bryan founded 200 Mile Consulting, advising clients on M&A, financial planning, transaction modeling, capital strategy, management buyouts, and growth.

M&A execution • Investment research • Client advisory

Olga Koecher

Co-Founder & Vice President, Business Development

Olga holds operating and management control of Premia Advisors and leads the firm’s day-to-day operations, business development and administrative decision-making. Olga brings more than 25 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, transaction analysis, investment research, business development, and client advisory services. Since 2008, she has served as a Senior Analyst with 1stWEST Mergers & Acquisitions, supporting transactions across the United States and Latin America.

Her work includes confidential information memoranda, industry and competitive research, financial and valuation analysis, due-diligence coordination, and outreach to private-equity firms, investment banks, and strategic buyers. Olga holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College.

Wireless • Fiber • Spectrum • Infrastructure

Trey Lutrick

Senior Managing Director

Trey is a telecommunications executive and strategic advisor with more than 30 years of experience across wireless, fiber, broadband infrastructure, spectrum strategy, engineering, operations, and corporate development.

He has directed deployment of more than 2,300 wireless sites across 38 states, supported FCC spectrum-auction strategies, and advised more than 130 local telephone companies on wireless and fiber investment, partnerships, and revenue diversification.

Growth strategy • Brand • Digital commerce • AI

Ramiro Sosa

Senior Managing Director, Integrated Marketing

Ramiro is a marketing and brand-strategy executive with experience spanning technology, financial services, consumer products, entertainment, digital commerce, SaaS, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and IoT.

His career includes DirecTV and SkyTV, global advertising assignments, regional marketing leadership at Sony, digital-order-channel leadership at McDonald’s USA, and advisory work with technology startups.

Operations • M&A integration • Transformation • Program management

David Anthony

Senior Managing Director & Operations Specialist

David is an operations and transformation executive with more than 25 years of experience leading enterprise change, M&A integration, program management, and technology delivery across telecommunications, IT, manufacturing, financial services, retail, and other global industries. His career includes 11 years with IBM Global Business Services, four years with PwC Transaction Services, more than nine years with Huawei, and technology-integration leadership at Liberty Latin America.

At Liberty Latin America, David led project managers, technology planners, and financial planners responsible for integrating telecom technology and operations following acquisitions. His broader experience includes supply-chain diligence and integration, PMO design, digital and organizational transformation, major IT implementations, operating-budget improvement, change management, and executive stakeholder communications across the United States and international markets.

FIRM ORIGINS

Derek Koecher

Non-Operating Founder

Premia Advisors was originally founded by Derek Koecher.

His prior professional background includes more than 30 years in telecommunications and technology, including executive positions at T-Mobile, Verizon, CenturyLink, Liberty Latin America and Velocom Argentina. His historical experience spans corporate strategy, portfolio development, value creation, transactions and complex regulatory matters involving the DOJ, FCC and CFIUS.

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