Ken Fox
| Ken Fox | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Kenneth Allen Fox Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Education | The Pennsylvania State University |
| Occupation | •Co-founder & former Managing Director of Internet Capital Group (ICG) • Managing Partner of Stripes Group • Co-founder and Chairman of Syndero • Former Executive Chairman of SmartWool •Co-founder of A-10 Capital • Co-founder of Sentinel Fund |
Kenneth Allen Fox is an American business man best known as an entrepreneur and investor. He was a co-founder of Internet Capital Group who has gone on to form Stripes Group, Sentinel Fund, Syndero and A10 Capital.
Fox grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he started his first business at the age of 15. He graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a BS degree in economics.
In 1994, Fox joined venture capital firm Safeguard Scientifics Inc. and in 1995 established the company's San Francisco office. In 1996, Fox, along with fellow Safeguard executive Walter Buckley, founded Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ : ICGE) with strategic investors including IBM and General Electric. While at ICG he led several investments including Matchlogic, SMART Technologies and TRADEX. Fox also was Chairman of ICG Asia, a Hong Kong listed company that was sold to Hutchinson-Whampoa. ICG’s market capitalization peaked in March 2000 at over $50 billion after going public in August 1999. Fox's experience as an investor and operator with ICG during 2000 and 2001, a period in which the company paired its portfolio and operations, impacted his view on risk management and determined his current approach to private equity investing.
In 2003, Fox founded Stripes Group, a Manhattan-based private equity firm that makes growth-stage minority and majority investments in profitable internet, software-as-a-service, technology-enabled services and branded consumer products companies.Stripes Group portfolio companies include Perimeter eSecurity, Epic Advertising, NetQuote and SmartWool. In 2009, Stripes Group invested $13 million into MyWebGrocer, a company that manages websites for grocery chains while selling advertising to consumer packaged goods companies that is based in Winooski, VT.
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