Simon Cornwell

Simon is a partner at Amadeus Capital Partners Limited, where he specialises in the communications and media sectors. Since joining Amadeus in 2001, Simon has taken positions as a non-executive director on the board of several companies which includes three Stockholm-based companies, PacketFront, a market leader in European fibre-to-home networks; Transmode Holdings, which makes data transmission equipment; and Edgeware, which makes high-bandwidth solid-state servers for the IPTV and other markets.

Simon also sits on the board of Velocix, a Cambridge-based company building a next generation peer-assisted network for delivering video and other large files over the internet. Simon also manages Amadeus’ investment in Xelerated, a networking semiconductor company based in Stockholm. Simon joined Amadeus from Two Way TV, a digital TV entertainment and technology company, where he was chief executive. Prior to founding Two Way TV, Simon worked at Boston Consulting Group and at the Granada Group.

Simon holds five patents in digital and interactive TV. Simon holds an MA in Public Policy Management from the Yale School of Management, and a BA and MA in Modern Languages from Oxford University.