Philipp Freise, Director with US investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) in London, was personally involved in KKR’s investments in Demag, Zumtobel, MTU Aero Engines, Duales System Deutschland – Der Grüne Punkt, A.T.U., AVR, SBS Broadcasting, ProSiebenSat.1 and BMG Rights Management. Freise leads KKR’s European media team and serves on the Board of Directors of ATU, DSD, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and BMG Rights Management. Freise, a scholar of the German National Scholarship foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) during his studies at WHU Koblenz, EDHEC Lille and University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, where he graduated top of his MBA class, worked at McKinsey & Company in Vienna, Frankfurt and New York and co-founded Berlin-based investment firm Venturepark before joining KKR in 2001. In December 2007, Freise was elected top buyout specialist in Financial News’s Rising Stars. In January 2009, Freise was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
