Anne is a co-founder and chief executive of Amadeus Capital Partners, the management company that provides investment services to the Amadeus venture capital funds. In her current position, Anne brings together many threads of experience – as a scientist, operating manager and venture capitalist. She is a non-executive director on the Board of: GlySure, which has developed a continuous glucose sensor for sale into the intensive care market; and an observer on the Board of Covestor, a real trade sharing service.
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.
In 2004-2005 Anne was chairman of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), which represents around 165 UK-based private equity and venture capital firms. 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 seven years, Anne has been a member of the Council that runs the BVCA and has previously held the position of vice-chairman in addition to being chairman of the Technology Subcommittee for five years and was also a member of Sir David Walker's high level private equity working group in 2007. Anne is currently a non-executive director of the UK government's Technology Strategy Board and recently chaired the committee on government procurement from SMEs. She is also a member of the London Business School’s Private Equity Institute Advisory Board and is a member of the Women's Enterprise Task Force.
She holds an MA in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Clare College, Cambridge and an MA in Public and Private Management from Yale. In June 2006 she was awarded a CBE for services to business and in July 2008 she was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Anne is both a US and UK citizen.
