Peter Cowley (born 1955, Kingston-upon-Hull, England) is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor and speaker based in

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. He is Investment Director at Martlet, the Corporate Angel division of Marshall of Cambridge. and was President of the European Business Angel Network (

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Career

Among the technology and property development businesses he has founded are Camdata, and Ept Computing, which was acquired by Redgate Software in 2009. Cowley has invested in over 75 technology startups and was chair of the

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. He is President Emeritus of the European Business Angels Network

and a board member of the Global Business Angels Network (GBAN), part of

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. A member of the Investment Committee of the Angel CoFund, a £100 million UK Government-backed fund for supporting and growing British SMEs. and the board of the UK Business Angels Association, where he was awarded UK Angel of the Year in 2014. A Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the

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, Cowley is also a council member of the Cambridge Computer Lab Ring, and chair of supporters and a member of the Steering Committee of ideaSpace, the

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incubator.

Education

After gaining a MA in Engineering and Computer Science from Fitzwilliam College,

, Cowley gained qualifications from the

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and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Authorship

In 2018, Peter Cowley authored a book on angel investment titled ''The Invested Investor''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cowley, Peter Angel investors Living people British businesspeople Private equity and venture capital investors Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge 1955 births