Hermann Hauser

Co-founder

Amadeus Capital Partners

Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, Dr Hermann Hauser KBE has wide experience in developing and financing companies in the information technology sector. He co-founded a number of high-tech companies including Acorn Computers which spun out ARM, E-trade UK, Virata and Cambridge Network. He co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 and has invested in CSR, Solexa, Icera, Xmos and Cambridge Broadband. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Academy of Engineering, as well as an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. In 2001 he was awarded an Honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector’. In 2004 he was made a member of the Government’s Council for Science and Technology and in 2013 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. In 2015 Hermann was awarded a KBE for services to Engineering and Industry.