Among the missing people in the sinking of the Bayesian sailboat, there is also Mike Lynch, known at home – in the United Kingdom – as “British Bill Gates”. In fact, it seems that the luxurious sailboat belonged to his family: according to what the Financial TimeThe ship is reportedly registered in the name of Revtom Limited, whose sole shareholder is Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares, who was rescued in recent hours. In addition to the tycoon, the couple's 18-year-old daughter, Hannah Lynch, is also among the missing. On board the boat, according to initial accounts from survivors, was a group of employees of Invoke Capital, an investment fund launched by Lynch in 2012: survivor Charlotte Golunski, mother of the one-year-old girl who was miraculously killed. saved, explained that it was a kind of corporate “reward trip.” But who is Lynch, the son of a firefighter turned tech tycoon?
In 2011, Lynch was dubbed “the UK's most influential person in digital technology” by the weekly. Weekly Computer. Former CEO of software publisher Autonomy Corporation, the 59-year-old has been at the center of a highly publicized legal scandal in English-language newspapers in recent years. In 2018, judges opened a trial for the sale of Autonomy to HP. Lynch was charged with fraud for allegedly altering economic data to his advantage in order to profit from the sale: HP, which bought Autonomy for $11.1 billion, later estimated its real value at $8.8 billion. However, in June 2024, all 15 charges were dropped in the San Francisco court and Lynch was completely exonerated.
With a heritage estimated by Sunday hours With around $500 million – as of early 2024 – Lynch began his rise to digital entrepreneurship in the 1990s. After his PhD at Cambridge, he founded Autonomy. It quickly became one of the largest software publisher listed on the Ftse 100. In 2006, Lynch was awarded the honour of Knight of the Order of the British Empire. In 2008, the Royal Academy of Engineering inducted him as a Fellow. Lynch has also served on the Royal Society's Scientific Committee and was appointed to the British Technology Industry Scientific Committee under David Cameron. In 2012, he launched the investment fund Invoke Capital.
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