Jeff Koenig, originally from Pittsburgh, PA, commenced from the University of South Carolina in 1977 when he also received his Commission as a 2ndLt in the United States Marine Corps. Following eight years of active duty as a CH-46E helicopter pilot, which included service in Beirut Lebanon, he entered the business world in 1984. For 10 years, he served as a Property & Casualty Reinsurance Broker, then in 1994 he helped start and eventually became President & CEO of Premier Health Systems, Inc, a Managed Care Network owned by Baptist Medical Center and Providence Hospital. Following Premier being acquired, Jeff joined the National Alliance Division of Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina in 2010 and retired as Senior Director in April 2022. He continued his military service in the USMC Reserves and retired as a LtCol in 1999. In the early 1990s, Jeff also served on the School Improvement Council for Brennen Elementary School in Columbia, and at the end of 2022, concluded a three year term on the Marines’ Memorial Association’s Board of Directors in San Francisco, CA.

Jeff and his wife, the former Gill Macmurphy, have lived in Columbia since 1988 and have been members of First Presbyterian Church since 1993 where Jeff has served two terms as a Deacon and participated in four short term mission trips to Mexico. They have three grown children, Jeff Jr. (Dana), Maggie (Joey) and Bill (Keeana), two grandsons, Heath and Garrett, one granddaughter, Mary Aiken and a grandson due in July 2023.