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 identifies the operating lead for each engagement at the outset. Clients work directly with the senior professionals accountable for the mandate.

Corporate strategy • Telecommunications • Value creation

Derek Koecher

Non-Operating Founder

Derek is a seasoned executive and strategic growth leader with more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications and technology. His prior roles include executive corporate-strategy positions at T-Mobile, Verizon, and CenturyLink; Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Development at Liberty Latin America; and Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Development at Velocom Argentina.

He has advised executive teams and boards, developed growth and portfolio strategies, and participated in transactions that helped create major U.S. communications and technology companies. His experience also includes complex matters involving the DOJ, FCC, and CFIUS.

M&A execution • Investment research • Client advisory

Olga Koecher

Co-Founder & Vice President, Business Development

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.

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.

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.

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