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Michael Richard Lynch (born 16 June 1965) is a British technology entrepreneur, known as the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation and the founder of Invoke Capital. Lynch additionally became a co-founder, alongside Invoke Capital, of cybersecurity company Darktrace. He has also had various other roles, including those in an advisory capacity. Following a degree, PhD and post-doctoral research at Cambridge University, he applied his research in machine learning to set up software companies and become a major figure in Silicon Fen. The sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 led to accusations of fraud and resulted in civil litigation in the UK and Lynch's extradition to the US, where he went on trial in March 2024. Early life and education Lynch was born in Ilford in 1965 and grew up near Chelmsford in Essex. His mother was a nurse from County Tipperary and his father a firefighter from County Cork in Ireland.Aged 11, he won a scholarship to Bancroft's School, Woodford. From there he went to Christ's College, Cambridge to study Natural Sciences. After graduating he went on study for a PhD in neural networks (a form of machine learning) under the supervision of Peter Rayner, director of studies in engineering at Christ's College, and produced a thesis with the title Adaptive techniques in signal processing and connectionist models. He then undertook a research fellowship in adaptive pattern recognition. Career Lynch set up his first company in the late 1980s, while he was studying for his PhD. Lynett Systems Ltd was financed with a £2000 loan negotiated in a bar and produced designs and audio products for the music industry, including electronic synthesizers and a sampler for the Atari ST. In 1991 he founded Cambridge Neurodynamics, which specialized in computer-based fingerprint recognition. There were three spin-offs from Cambridge Neurodynamics: Neurascript, which searched business documents based on character recognition and was bought by German Company Dicom in 2004; NCorp, which searched databases; and Autonomy which searched unstructured sources including phone calls, emails and videos.Autonomy was founded in 1996 by Lynch, David Tabizel and Richard Gaunt. With Lynch as chief executive office (CEO), the search software company grew to become one of the UK's top 100 public companies, and a leading company in Silicon Fen. In October 2011 Autonomy was sold to Hewlett-Packard for more than $11 billion (£8.6 billion). The sale would eventually lead to civil and criminal cases against Lynch and Autonomy's chief financial officer (CFO) Sushovan Hussain.After the sale of Autonomy, Lynch founded a venture capital firm, Invoke Capital. One of the first companies backed by Invoke Capital was cybersecurity firm Darktrace. Invoke Capital became the firm's biggest shareholder, with Lynch and his wife Angela Bacares being the second biggest, holding shares worth nearly £200 million. Many of the staff at Darktrace, including its CEO, had moved across from Autonomy and Lynch was a member of the board until 2018 and continued as a member of the advisory council until 2021, and a member its science and technology council until February 2023. As well as having to deal with questions about Lynch's involvement with the company, Darktrace has also had to counter scepticism about its technology which analysts had referred to as "snake oil". Other technologies backed by Invoke Capital include: Featurespace, which specialises in software to detect and prevant fraud and financial crime; legal technology firm Luminance, established in collaboration with Slaughter and May; and Sophia Genetics, a Swiss medical data company.As a leading technology entrepreneur, Lynch held a number of positions on boards and committees. When he was charged with fraud in the United States he resigned from his role as a government advisor on the Council for Science and Technology and from Royal Society committees. He had previously been on the board of Cambridge Enterprise, Kew Gardens, the BBC and the British Library, Nesta and the Francis Crick Institute. Awards and honours Lynch was awarded an OBE for services to enterprise in the 2006 New Year Honours.In June 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.In 2011, he was named as the most influential person in UK IT by Computer Weekly.In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.In 2014 he was made a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Suffolk. Civil and criminal cases Lynch made an estimated $800 million from the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard, but the sale would prove problematical and leave him facing civil claims and criminal charges.In November 2012, Hewlett-Packard announced a $8.8 billion (£5.5 billion) writedown of assets following their purchase of Autonomy due to "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations" which occurred before the acquisition and artificially inflated the value of Autonomy. Lynch denied the allegations. The allegations were investigated by the UK Serious Fraud Office, who announced in January 2015 that it was ending its investigation with no action due to insufficient evidence in respect of some aspects of the allegations, while other aspects were ceded to the US authorities. In November 2018, Lynch was indicted for fraud in the US along with Stephen Chamberlain, former vice president of finance at Autonomy. Earlier in 2018 Sushovan Hussain, Autonomy's former finance chief officer, had been found guilty of fraud in the US and sentenced to five years in prison. In March 2019, Hewlett-Packard brought a civil action for fraud in the High Court in London. The action alleged that Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain and founder Lynch "artificially inflated Autonomy's reported revenues, revenue growth and gross margins". The case was heard by Justice Hildyard sitting for 93 days over a period of nine months at the Rolls Building. The judge delivered his conclusions in January 2022, ruling that Hewlett-Packard had substantially succeeded in their claims. Damages were to be decided later, but the judge said they were likely to be considerably less than the $5 billion claimed by Hewlett Packard.While the civil trial was taking place in London, the American authorities were seeking Lynch's extradition to face criminal charges of conspiracy and fraud in the US. Through his lawyers, Lynch said he "vigorously rejects all the allegations". As a formality, he submitted himself for arrest in February 2020, and was released on bail of £10 million by Westminster Magistrates' Court. The case created a debate about the workings of UK–US extradition treaty of 2003, with five former cabinet ministers signing a letter to The Times arguing against the extradition and MP David Davis said in parliament that it was an attempt to by the American authorities to "exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction".In July 2021 a district judge ruled at Westminster Magistrates' Court that .... Discover the Michael Lynch popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Michael Lynch books.

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  • AIDS Activist synopsis, comments

    AIDS Activist

    Ann Silversides

    Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a longtime gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in ...

  • Idyll Fears synopsis, comments

    Idyll Fears

    Stephanie Gayle

    Police Chief Thomas Lynch investigates the disappearance of a sixyearold boy with a serious medical condition while coping with disrespect from townspeople and colleagues who don't...

  • Animals of the World - Alphabet - Numbers - Geography synopsis, comments

    Animals of the World - Alphabet - Numbers - Geography

    Michael Lynch

    A gorgeously illustrated and interactive alphabetic introduction to some of the wonderful animals we share our world with.  Showcasing SEVENTY EIGHT amazing animals along with...

  • By the Smoke and the Smell synopsis, comments

    By the Smoke and the Smell

    Thad Vogler

    Spirits expert Thad Vogler, owner of the James Beard Award–winning Bar Agricole, takes readers around the world, celebrating the vivid characters who produce handmade spi...

  • Michael R. Lynch v. State Indiana synopsis, comments

    Michael R. Lynch v. State Indiana

    Supreme Court of Michigan

    This matter is before us on Lynchs Petition to Transfer from the Third District Court of Appeals. In an opinion reported at 552 N.E.2d 56 (Garrard, J. Dissenting) the Court of Appe...

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    Paper Fortunes

    Roy C. Smith

    A LONG, WILD RIDEPaper Fortunes is the richlydetailed story of Wall Street from postwar heyday to present woes, from a player whose experiences, profiles of the colorful personalit...

  • The Slippers with the Turned-Up Toes synopsis, comments

    The Slippers with the Turned-Up Toes

    Michael Lynch

    The Slippers With The Turned Up Toes is a classic bedtime or anytime story for children of all ages published more than thirty years after the author, Michael Lynch's death. His da...

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    Straybeck Rising

    Michael James Lynch

    Fear is endemic.... You kneel, or you die... This is Straybeck...The Premier demands loyalty and controls his people through terror and violence. Thirtythree years ago, Robb Callow...

  • The Buried synopsis, comments

    The Buried

    Sharon Bolton

    AN OLD ENEMY IS LAID TO REST . . . AND A NEW CRIME IS DISCOVEREDFlorence Lovelady, the most senior serving policewoman in Britain, visits convicted serial killer Larry Glassbrook i...

  • Teenage Revolution synopsis, comments

    Teenage Revolution

    Alan Davies

    When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad. 'What are we going to do with you?' they would ask as if he might know the answer.Perhaps it was because he came...

  • Contagious Optimism synopsis, comments

    Contagious Optimism

    David Mezzapelle

    David Mezzapelle was inspired to write this uplifting book based on his life's experiences and his own contagious optimism. He has influenced many people with his outlook and this ...

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    The Twilight Twins

    Michael Lynch

    The Twilight Twins is a classic bedtime or anytime story for children of all ages published more than thirty years after the author, Michael Lynch's death. His daughters, author K....

  • Mary L. Lynch v. Michael J. Lynch synopsis, comments

    Mary L. Lynch v. Michael J. Lynch

    Supreme Court of New York

    [105 A.D.2d 1069 Page 1069] Order unanimously modified, and, as modified, affirmed, with costs to plaintiff, and matter remitted to Supreme Court, Erie County, for further proceed...

  • Rogues synopsis, comments

    Rogues

    George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Gillian Flynn, Neil Gaiman & Patrick Rothfuss

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA thrilling collection of twentyone original stories by an allstar list of contributorsincluding a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. R. Martin!If yo...

  • Matter Michael J. Lynch v. John J. Gardner Et Al. synopsis, comments

    Matter Michael J. Lynch v. John J. Gardner Et Al.

    Supreme Court of New York

    In our opinion, the Zoning Board of Appeals had no power to disregard or vary the thousandfoot limitation (Matter of Texas Co. v. Sinclair, 279 App. Div. 803, affd. 304 N. Y. 817; ...

  • Herbert Lynch v. Michael Johnston synopsis, comments

    Herbert Lynch v. Michael Johnston

    Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

    This action was commenced in Juniata County in June of 1982 when Plaintiff, Herbert Lynch, filed a pleading entitled "Class Action in Trespass and Torts, Joint Complaint", the capt...

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    Idyll Threats

    Stephanie Gayle

    In the summer of 1997, Thomas Lynch arrives as the new chief of police in Idyll, Connecticuta town where serious crimes can be counted on one hand. So no one is prepared when Cecil...

  • Whiskey, Irish Stew und Feenwelten synopsis, comments

    Whiskey, Irish Stew und Feenwelten

    Christine Jakob

    Ein "Schmökerbuch" über die grüne Insel in einer besonderen Vielfalt. Es versammelt zauberhafte Geschichten und geheimnisvolle Legenden, aber auch Kulturelles, Amüsantes, Kurzweili...

  • The Good Book synopsis, comments

    The Good Book

    Andrew Blauner

    Thirtytwo prominent writers share the Bible passages most meaningful to them in this “Sunday School class you’ve been waiting for” (Garrison Keillor).The Good Book, with an introdu...

  • Sasperilda synopsis, comments

    Sasperilda

    Michael Lynch

    Sasperilda is a classic bedtime or anytime story for children of all ages published more than thirty years after the author, Michael Lynch's death. His daughters, author K.M. Daugh...