Episode 9 of The Clockwork CIO is now live, featuring Anne Glover, Chief Executive and Co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a London-based global technology investor.

Anne has been a venture capitalist for over 30 years and has been investing in emerging markets for 15 years.

A former Chairman of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and Invest Europe, Anne was appointed Non-Executive Director of the Court of the Bank of England in 2018 and in 2019 became a member of the Investment Committee of Yale Corporation.

Anne co-founded Amadeus Capital with Hermann Hauser in 1997. The VC firm is regarded as one of the UK’s leading technology investors, where it seeks out opportunities to provide early stage and growth capital to companies spanning AI and machine learning, digital health and medical technology, cybersecurity to name but a few.

During this episode Anne discusses:

• How moving to America first opened her eyes to truly appreciate the concept of entrepreneurship

• How her scientific training at Cambridge University equipped Anne with the skills to take an evidenced-based approach to investing; always be armed with the facts, even in softer issues

• Why leadership is about inspiring people to follow you, and to believe in your mission

• Overcoming the initial challenges and skepticism that Anne and Hermann would be successful partners – three decades later, and the firm is as vibrant as ever

• Attention to detail to drive the highest standards possible – something that investors have come to appreciate in the quality of Amadeus Capital’s reporting

• Calculated risk taking, using mountaineering by way of analogy

Here’s a quote I liked:

“Leadership is about creating ‘followship’. If you don’t have other people engaged and believing in the direction you are going in, it’s a waste of time.”