Background
He was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1965, but his family moved to England, where he grew up near Chelmsford, Essex. His mother was a nurse and his father a fireman.
He was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1965, but his family moved to England, where he grew up near Chelmsford, Essex. His mother was a nurse and his father a fireman.
n 1976, aged 11, he won a scholarship to Bancroft's School, Woodford.
He combined mathematics, biological and physical sciences, taking the combination of advanced physics, mathematics and biochemistry in the IB Tripos. For part II, he chose electrical sciences where he first met Dr Peter Rayner, his mentor in the signal processing laboratory of the engineering department.
In October 2011 Autonomy was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $11Bn. In May 2012, HP fired Mike Lynch. In February 2013, Lynch raised $1 billion through his Invoke Capital fund to invest in up and coming British technology companies.