After selling his company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard he was cleared in June of 15 counts of fraud
off the coast of Sicily, is one of the few examples of a UK entrepreneur who has created a global technology company.
Its software was used by companies to analyse huge caches of data and partly owed its efficacy to Bayesian inference, a statistical theory devised by the 18th-century statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister Thomas Bayes. Lynch’s triumphs led to him becoming a science adviser to David Cameron when he was prime minister and a non-executive director of the BBC, as well as receiving an OBE in 2006 for services to enterprise.
Mr Justice Hildyard, the high court judge in the case, had been due to rule on HP’s claim for $4bn in damages and had said the amount he intended to award would be much lower. Lynch had said he intended to appeal against the ruling.At the companies he ran, Lynch is said to have put his own personal stamp, indulging his penchant for James Bond.
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