Name Anne Glover | Role Venture capitalist | |
Education Yale University, Clare College, Cambridge, Yale School of Management | ||
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Anne Margaret Glover, CBE HonFREng (born 6 February 1954), is CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies. Prior to founding Amadeus in 1997, she was with Apax Partners & Company Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team. She also has experience as a business angel, investing in UK-based information technology start-ups. Glover has also had significant operating experience with Virtuality Group plc, where she was COO of the virtual reality peripherals company.
Glover also was a manager and consultant with Bain & Company in Boston for five years. Earlier in her career, she held a variety of management positions with Cummins Engine.
She is a former chairman of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), which represents approximately 165 UK-based private equity and venture capital firms. She is also on the Technology Strategy Board of the UK's Department of Trade and Industry.
Glover earned a master's degree in management from Yale School of Management and a master's degree in metallurgy and materials science from Clare College, Cambridge.
Glover was awarded a CBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours list "for services to business" and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008.
She was elected Chair of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (now Invest Europe) in June 2014.
Anne Glover along with Dervilla Mitchell, Professor Sarah Harper, Professor Fiona Murray and Professor Philip Bond was appointed to the Council for Science and Technology in March 2014.