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Networking Lunch - Speaker Anne Glover - 3 November

Date: Thursday 3rd November 2011

Time: 12.00 - 15.00 pm

Venue: St. James & Kensington Rooms, 6th Floor, Claridge's

Speaker: Anne Glover, Chief Executive and co-Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners

Details of speech: "SME finance in difficult times"

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Anne Glover is CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies. Prior to founding Amadeus in 1997, she was with Apax Partners & Company Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team. She also has experience as a business angel, investing in UK-based information technology start-ups. Glover has also had significant operating experience with Virtuality Group plc, where she was COO of the virtual reality peripherals company.

Glover also was a manager and consultant with Bain & Company in Boston for five years. Earlier in her career, she held a variety of management positions with Cummins Engine.

She is a former chairman of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), which represents approximately 165 UK-based private equity and venture capital firms. She is also on the Technology Strategy Board of the UK's Department of Trade and Industry.

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.

Glover was awarded a CBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours list "for services to business".

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