Anne Glover (businesswoman) explained

Anne Glover
Honorific Suffix:CBE HonFREng
Birth Date:6 February 1954
Nationality:British
Education:Yale School of Management

Anne Margaret Glover, (born 6 February 1954)[1] is CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital 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.[2] She has been a business angel, investing in UK-based information technology start-ups.[3] [4] Glover worked for Virtuality Group plc, where she was COO of the virtual reality peripherals company.[5]

Glover was a manager and consultant with Bain & Company in Boston for five years.[6] 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 private equity and venture capital firms.[7] She is on the Technology Strategy Board of the UK's Department of Trade and Industry.[8]

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.[9]

Glover was appointed a Commander of the Order of British Empire (CBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours, "for services to business" and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008.[10]

She was elected Chair of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (now Invest Europe) in June 2014.[11]

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.[12]

In June 2018, Glover has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director in the Court of Directors of the Bank of England.[13] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021.[14]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anne Glover. Clare College, Cambridge. 7 January 2012. https://archive.today/20130119090818/http://www.clarealumni.com/s/845/1col.aspx?sid=845&gid=1&pgid=599. 19 January 2013. dead.
  2. News: Saturday profile: Prophet is back in her own country. The Daily Telegraph. 2000-11-18. 2019-11-27. en-GB. 0307-1235.
  3. Web site: AwakenAngels Cofounder wins Europe and UK Angel Investor 2023 . 2024-08-20 . AwakenAngels . en-GB.
  4. Web site: блогdeepinspire . 2024-02-01 . Top fintech angel investors in the UK DeepInspire . 2024-08-20 . Technology Insights DeepInspire . en-US.
  5. Web site: UK's top VCs revealed: 11 women to watch in investment. 2017-02-14. Growth Business. en-GB. 2019-11-27.
  6. Web site: Anne Glover: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek. www.bloomberg.com. 2016-07-25.
  7. Web site: EVCA names Anne Glover as chairman. 2014-06-13. 2016-07-25.
  8. Web site: Prime Minister David Cameron appoints Prof Harper to the Council for Science and Technology. 2016-07-25. 15 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190315093800/https://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/news/prime-minister-david-cameron-appoints-prof-harper-council-science-and-technology. dead.
  9. Web site: Anne Glover '78 Named European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Chairman Yale SOM Alumni. alumni.som.yale.edu. 2016-07-25.
  10. Web site: Academy announces new Fellows for 2008. 5 November 2016. 24 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924084557/http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2008/July/academy-announces-new-fellows. dead.
  11. Web site: Nicholson. Lynn. EVCA announces 2014-2015 Chairman. European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. EVCA. 23 June 2014.
  12. Web site: Prime Ministers Office. Prime Minister appoints new members of the Council for Science and Technology. gov.uk. 23 June 2014.
  13. Web site: Anne Glover. www.bankofengland.co.uk. en. 2019-07-24.
  14. Web site: Stephen. Phyllis. 2021-03-29. New 2021 fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2022-02-01. The Edinburgh Reporter. en-US.

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