Mike Lynch (businessman)

thumb|The system can sweep individuals away Michael Richard Lynch (16 June 1965 – 19 August 2024) was a British technology entrepreneur who co-founded Autonomy Corporation, Invoke Capital and Darktrace. The sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 led to accusations of fraud and resulted in civil litigation in the UK in 2019. The case was decided largely in favour of Hewlett-Packard. In 2023, Lynch was extradited to the United States to face criminal charges. He went on trial in San Francisco in March 2024 and in June was found not guilty on all counts. Lynch was celebrating his acquittal with a cruise on his family's superyacht, Bayesian, when it sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily on 19 August 2024. Lynch, his daughter and five others died. Quotes Designing synthesisers was incredible training, because it’s all real time, it’s all assembler code, multiple processors. Quoted in "Interview with Mike Lynch OBE", Archives IT (31 January 2017) I have various medical things that would have made it very difficult to survive. If this had gone the wrong way, it would have been the end of life as I have known it in any sense. The system can sweep individuals away. There needs to be a contrarian possibility that’s saying: ‘Right, well, the whole world thinks you’re guilty but, actually, was that a fair conviction?’ Quoted in "Cleared UK tech tycoon feared he would die in US jail if convicted", The Guardian (28 Jul 2024) The reason I'm sitting here, let's be honest, is not only because I was innocent... but because I had enough money not to be swept away by a process that's set up to sweep you away. Quoted in "British tech tycoon: I only got justice because I'm rich", BBC News (1 August 2024) It's bizarre, but now you have a second life - the question is, what do you want to do with it? Quoted in "Mike Lynch spoke of his 'second life' just weeks before mysterious disappearance", Irish Star ( 19 Aug 2024) Quotes about Lynch He had a remarkable set of personality traits that we rarely see in Britain. Before him there was no British tech scene. He showed us we can be world-class. David Tabizel quoted in "'My little angel': Sister of final yacht victim Hannah Lynch speaks for first time since tragedy", Sky News (25 August 2024) External links Category:1965 births Category:2024 deaths Category:Businesspeople from the United Kingdom