Kip A. Frey, Adjunct Professor, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy  

Kip A. Frey

Office Location: Sanford 137
Office Phone: +1 919 493 6640
Email Address: kip@intersouth.com

Areas of Expertise:
Media and Communications

Education:
JD, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1985
AB, cum laude, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1981

Teaching (Summer2 2008):

  • Pubpol 82.01, Public speaking
    Sanford 102, MTuTh 05:00 PM-07:05 PM

Bio/Profile

Mr. Frey is a venture capitalist and educator.  He joined Intersouth Partners in 2000 as a Venture Partner and has served as a full-time partner since 2003, working with the venture capital firm’s information technology portfolio.  Prior to joining Intersouth, he ran venture-backed companies.  He served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Ventana Communications Group, having sold the company in 1994 to the Thomson Corporation.  In 1998 he became President of Accipiter, Inc. and sold the company to CMGI, Inc., structuring the transaction so that its ultimate value exceeded $500 million.  Later that year Mr. Frey became President and CEO of OpenSite Technologies, Inc., which was acquired in 2000 by Siebel Systems for $542 million.  OpenSite was named NCEITA Software Company of the Year in 1999 and Mr. Frey was honored by Digital South Magazine as the Southeast’s top entrepreneurial CEO.   He received the Council for Entrepreneurial Development’s Entrepreneurial Excellence Award in 2000.
            Mr. Frey is a lawyer by training and practiced intellectual property law for five years before joining Turner Broadcasting System in 1990.  While at Turner he ran several business units and contributed to the acquisition of Castle Rock Entertainment, the formation of the Cartoon Network, the construction of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino and the preparation of several projects that for various reasons never saw the light of day.  For a time he was known on television as K. Allen Frey while running Turner’s World Championship Wrestling organization.        
            In addition to his day job, Mr. Frey has been a professor at Duke University for the past twelve years.  He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Sanford Institute, where he teaches intellectual property law and policy.  Prior to that, he served as Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurial Management, holding joint appointments from Duke Law School and the Fuqua School of Business.  Mr. Frey is a member of Duke Law School's Board of Visitors and Duke’s Athletics Advisory Board.  He is also a member of the Durham Academy and Triangle Community Foundation Boards of Trustees and Wachovia Bank’s North Carolina Advisory Board.
            Mr. Frey is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California Film School and of Duke Law School, where he served on the Duke Law Journal.  He currently serves on the boards of five private Intersouth portfolio companies and one publicly-traded company, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.