Philipp Freise

Philipp Freise is an entrepreneur and angel investor from London, UK. Philipp Freise is the Head of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry team for KKR's Private Equity platform in Europe. Mr. Freise serves as a member of KKR's European Private Equity and its Growth Equity Investment Committees. Mr. Freise led KKR's investments in GfK SE, Arago, BMG Rights Management, Fotolia, GetYourGuide, Scout24 Switzerland and Trainline and played a significant role in various other KKR media (ProSiebenSat.1, SBS Broadcasting) and German transactions (Demag, Duales System Deutschland, MTU Aero Engines, Zumtobel). Mr. Freise currently serves on the board of directors of Arago, GfK SE, Airbus DS Electronics & Border Security and Trainline. He was a scholar of the German National Scholarship foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and graduated top of his class at WHU Koblenz, EDHEC Lille and University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business. He later worked at McKinsey & Company in Vienna, Frankfurt and New York, and subsequently co-founded Berlin-based venture investment firm Venturepark, Europe's first pan-European incubator. Mr. Freise serves on the board (Vorstand) of the Bayreuth Opera Festival (Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth).