Anne Glover

Who is Anne Glover?

Anne Margaret Glover 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, 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".