Who is Mike Lynch? A look at the British tech tycoon killed when his yacht sank off Sicily

AP Technology Writers

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who died after his yacht sank off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon Valley debacle that had tarnished his legacy as an icon of British ingenuity. The 59-year-old Lynch struck gold when he sold Autonomy, a software maker that he founded in 1996, to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion. But the deal quickly turned into an albatross for him after he was accused of cooking the books to make the sale. His death was confirmed by Italian officials after they recovered his body on Thursday along with five others, was a dramatic turn of events that came months after he was cleared of criminal charges in the U.S. in June.