Mike Lynch (businessman)

Mike Lynch

OBE DL FRS FREng
Mike Lynch; OBE DL FRS FREng
	Mike Lynch in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Born	16 June 1965; Ilford, Essex
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Known for	Autonomy Corporation Invoke Capital Darktrace Luminance
Awards	OBE; FREng (2008); FRS (2014);
	Scientific career
Institutions	Autonomy Corporation; Hewlett-Packard; Cambridge Neurodynamics; BBC; British Library; NESTA; University of Cambridge; Blinkx plc; UK Business Ambassador; The Royal Society committees; UK Council for Science and Technology; Cambridge Enterprise; Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub;
Thesis	Adaptive techniques in signal processing and connectionist models (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Peter J.W. Rayner

Michael Richard Lynch OBE DL FRS FREng (born 16 June 1965) is a British entrepreneur. He is 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.

His entrepreneurship is associated with Silicon Fen. Lynch is known for his work applying techniques from signal processing, machine learning and pattern recognition to unstructured information. Lynch has been accused of fraudulently inflating the value of Autonomy before its sale to Hewlett-Packard, which has resulted in litigation and his extradition to the US.

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