Who is Mike Lynch, the tech entrepreneur among the missing after a superyacht sank? | CNN Business

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Mike Lynch, the 59-year-old British tech investor, is among those missing after a tornado hit a luxury yacht he was on, sinking it off the coast of Sicily, Italy, early Monday, a source told CNN.

Lynch garnered much of his wealth from cofounding Autonomy, a tech company purchased by Hewlett-Packard, or HP, for $11 billion in 2011. An attorney for Lynch recently revealed that the entrepreneur’s total worth is around $450 million.

The Autonomy sale was one of the biggest British tech deals at the time but quickly went sour, with HP writing

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