Hermann Hauser

Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover. Hermann has founded or co-founded a number of companies, including Acorn Computers (where he helped spin out ARM), Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network. And he was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited, Electronic Share Information Limited, and E*Trade UK.

Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He also holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough, and from Anglia Ruskin University. In 2001 he was awarded an Honorary CBE for 'innovative service to the UK enterprise sector'.

In 2004, Hermann Hauser was made a member of the Government's Council for Science & Technology. In 2012 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his contribution to the translation of science into business and in 2013 a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) for services to engineering and industry and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

He holds non-executive director positions at XMOS, Intune Networks, Tobii, Plastic Logic, and Cambridge Broadband Networks. And he is the Amadeus Capital Partners representative at Graphcore.