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.