Anne Glover, Amadeus Capital Partners

Anne Glover, CEO and Co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners,
joins Alexandra Daly to share insights into early stage tech amid
the ongoing coronavirus situation, drawing on her 30 year career
in venture capital and experience of previous macroeconomic
downturns. 





Anne co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Hermann
Hauser.  Building on her scientific training and operating
experience, Anne has been an active venture capitalist for almost
thirty years.


Early in her career Anne lived in the US, working in
manufacturing with Cummins Engine Company and in strategy
consulting with Bain & Co, before returning to the UK to join
Apax Partners in 1989 to invest in early stage companies. She
became Chief Operating Officer of one of her investee companies,
Virtuality Group, after it listed on the London Stock Exchange in
1993, and then returned to investing as a business angel before
founding Amadeus in 1997.


A former Chairman of the British Private Equity and Venture
Capital Association (2004/05) and Invest Europe (formerly EVCA)
(2014/15), Anne is a member of the of the London Business
School’s Private Equity Institute Advisory Board. In 2018, Anne
was appointed as a Non-Executive Director on the Court of the
Bank of England. She joined the investment committee of the Yale
Endowment in 2019.


Anne holds an MA in Metallurgy & Materials Science from Clare
College, Cambridge, and a Masters in Public and Private
Management from Yale School of Management. She was awarded a CBE
in 2006 for services to business and is an honorary fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering. Her past successes at Amadeus
include Optos (OPTS:LN) and TCTI.