Dr Hermann Hauser is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners where he invested in CSR, Solexa, Icera, Xmos and Graphcore. Solexa created the dominant gene-sequencing technology now sold by Illumina. He has wide experience in developing and financing companies in the ICT and life science sector. He is a founder of Acorn Computers which created the ARM processor and helped spin it out with Apple into an independent company. He is vice-chair of the European Innovation Council, the €10bn deep tech fund of Horizon Europe.