The guest list for Mike Lynch’s fatal yacht party was a who’s who of players from the Autonomy scandal

Excessive-flying used workers at his tech neighborhood Autonomy, allies who helped push by means of its multibillion-buck sale to HP, and the upright brains who defended him after that deal turned bitter had been all in attendance on the Mediterranean when it ran into storms on Monday morning.

Lynch modified into pronounced dead on Thursday after the yacht he boarded with 21 other passengers sank off the cruise of Sicily. 

He modified into celebrating his most up-to-date acquittal on fraud expenses linked to HP’s $11.7 billion acquisition of Lynch’s tech neighborhood Autonomy in 2011. 

Lynch modified into joined by his predominant other, Angela Bacares, who survived, and his 18-12 months-frail daughter, Hannah Lynch, whose body modified into recovered on Friday morning.

Other passengers included serious allies who had supported Lynch by means of the tech mogul’s most turbulent length. 

The getaway modified into a symbolic voyage on what Lynch had described as the initiating of a “second existence.” 

The coincidental car rupture: Steven Chamberlain

Rumors beget now swirled in regards to the connections between the company on the boat and the coincidental death of Steven Chamberlain in a collision with a driver in Cambridgeshire, correct days sooner than the boat sank. 

Chamberlain modified into a passe at Autonomy and went on to turn into chief running officer at Darktrace, a firm broadly connected with Autonomy. He took a “leave of absence” to defend himself for the length of Lynch’s most up-to-date trial within the US.

Passe Autonomy NED: Jonathan Bloomer

The body of Jonathan Bloomer, 70, in addition to to that of his predominant other, Judy Bloomer, 71, had been recovered alongside Lynch’s on Wednesday. 

Autonomy appointed Bloomer as a non-govt board member in 2010. He chaired the neighborhood’s audit committee for the length of the HP sale and modified into a key detect for Lynch’s defense for the length of his fraud trial in California. At the time of his passing, Bloomer modified into a world chair at Morgan Stanley Global.

Bloomer suggested prosecutors that Lynch “wasn’t particularly drawn to the finance facet” of Autonomy, preferring to point of interest on design and the firm’s merchandise.

Lynch’s attorneys: Chris Morvillo and Ayla Ronald

Chris Morvillo, 59, passed away aboard the Bayesian yacht with his predominant other, American jewelry vogue designer Neda Morvillo, 57. 

Morvillo, a felony expert at magic circle agency Clifford Likelihood, represented Lynch in his felony trial within the U.S. 

He suggested the upright podcast For the Protection that the case “covered one-third of my career” after his first assembly with Lynch in 2012, as HP’s unrest grew. 

In a uncommon LinkedIn post following the trial, which would also hide to be one of his closing, Morvillo thanked his daughters and his gradual predominant other, Neda.

“I am so chuffed to be house,” Morvillo wrote. 

“They customarily all lived happily ever after…”

Ayla Ronald, a 36-12 months-frail senior associate at Clifford Likelihood, modified into also on board the Bayesian in conjunction with her partner, Matthew Fletcher. Both survived the sinking.

Ronald’s firm profile significant sides how she also defended Lynch in his fraud trial with HP.

Huge links to Darktrace 

After Lynch offered Autonomy, for which he is reported to beget purchased £500 million ($656 million), he net page up the endeavor capital fund Invoke Capital in 2012, which would examine his impact magnify deep into the U.K. tech scene in his final years. 

Invoke modified into an early-stage investor in Darktrace, now topic to a $5.3 billion acquisition from U.S. private fairness agency Thoma Bravo. The VC fund also invested in British AI firm Luminance, which closed a $40 million funding round in April.

Lynch and his predominant other Angela held hundreds of thousands of their gain price of their final years by means of Darktrace, with a supply telling Fortune they collectively had a 3% stake within the £4 billion ($5.25 billion) valued firm at the time of their passing. Fortune solely printed the deal is anticipated to quiet total later in 2024.

Several used high flyers from Lynch’s Autonomy days leaped into key positions at Darktrace. Poppy Gustafsson, Darktrace’s most up-to-date CEO, modified into an organization controller at Autonomy. In a LinkedIn post commemorating the lives lost, Gustafsson said “With out Mike, there would per chance per chance be no Darktrace. We owe him so unparalleled.”

The links seem deep; Darktrace’s founding CEO Nicole Eagan also served as chief marketing officer at Autonomy, for the length of the acquisition length spirited HP. Neither Eagan or Gustafsson had been on the boat, and both continue to take care of up leadership positions at Darktrace this day.

Invoke Capital: Charlotte Golunski

Charlotte Golunski is one other person with prolonged-held alternate ties to Lynch. She is a partner at Invoke Capital, becoming a member of for the length of its formation in 2012. Invoke Capital shared locations of work with Darktrace near London’s Trafalgar Square for a resolution of years.

Forward of becoming a member of Invoke, Golunski labored for Lynch at Autonomy and HP Autonomy for a 12 months after the acquisition.

Golunski, 35, survived the sinking of the Bayesian alongside her partner, James Emsley, and their 1-12 months-frail daughter. She had been asleep on the deck of the yacht in conjunction with her infant when the storm hit, describing how she felt oscillations within the boat sooner than it went down minutes later.

She suggested the Italian outlet La Repubblica how she held her infant above her hands within the water sooner than she modified into rescued.