Dame Anne Margaret Glover (born 6 February 1954) is

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and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a

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firm that invests in European high-technology companies.

Career

Prior to founding Amadeus in 1997, she was with Apax Partners & Company Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team. She has been a business angel, investing in UK-based

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start-ups. Glover worked for Virtuality Group plc, where she was COO of the

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peripherals company. Glover was a manager and consultant with

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for five years. Earlier in her career, she worked for Cummins Engine. She was chair of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), which represents approximately 165 UK-based

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and venture capital firms. She is on the

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of the UK's

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. Glover earned a master's degree in management from

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and a master's degree in

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and

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from

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. Glover was appointed a

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(CBE) in the

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, "for services to business" and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the

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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

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and Professor Philip Bond was appointed to the

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in March 2014. In June 2018, Glover was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in the Court of Directors of the

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. She was elected a

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in 2021.

References

External links

Anne Glover bio at Amadeus Capital
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