Hermann Hauser

An Honorary Fellow of King's, Hermann is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has been described as a "grandee of the British computing industry". He has founded a number of companies including Acorn Computers (and a spin-out company ARM Holdings), Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network Ltd. In 1997 he co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners, an investment firm. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and an Honorary Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is also Director of the European Innovation Council (EIC). In 2016, Hermann was awarded a KBE, having already been awarded an Honorary CBE in 2001 for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector. He has an MA in Physics from Vienna University, with his PhD in Physics from Cambridge. In addition, Hermann holds honorary degrees from several institutions.