Anne Glover Co-founder and CEO Amadeus Capital Partners www.amadeuscapital.com

Anne is a co-founder and chief executive of Amadeus Capital Partners Limited, the management company that provides investment services to three venture capital funds, Amadeus I and II and the recently formed Amadeus Mobile Seed Fund. In Anne's current position, she brings together her many threads of experience - as a scientist, operating manager and venture capitalist. She has prior experience working in venture capital, first at Apax Partners & Co Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team for five years, and subsequently as a business angel investing in UK-based information technology start-ups.

Anne has also had significant operating experience, most recently at Virtuality Group plc where she was chief operating officer of the virtual reality peripherals company. Earlier in her career, she held a variety of management positions with Cummins Engine, the US manufacturing company. Anne also spent five years with Bain & Co in Boston as a consultant and manager. She holds an MA in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Clare College, Cambridge and a Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale.

On 1 April 2004, Anne was elected Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), which represents around 165 UK-based private equity and venture capital firms, the vast majority of such firms in the UK. The BVCA is the public face of the industry providing services to its members, investors and entrepreneurs as well as the UK government and media. For the past six years, Anne has been a member of the Council that runs the organization, last year as Vice Chairman and in the five previous years as the Chairman of the Technology Subcommittee.

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