‘Britain’s Bill Gates’: Who is Mike Lynch, the UK tech entrepreneur missing after superyacht sinks?

‘Britain’s Bill Gates’: Who is Mike Lynch, the UK tech entrepreneur missing after superyacht sinks?


Key Points
  • British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch was acquitted in June of fraud charges in a landmark trial.
  • He was accused by Hewlett Packard of working to artificially inflate the value of his company Autonomy when he sold it to the U.S. tech giant for $11.7 billion in 2011.
  • Lynch — once lauded by the U.K. press as “Britain’s Bill Gates” — is now missing after the sinking of a superyacht off the coast of Sicily.



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