The search continues for six missing passengers who were aboard the doomed yacht Bayesian, which sank off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday morning. Among those missing is Mike Lynch, a tech tycoon often referred to as the 'British Bill Gates', and his teenage daughter Hannah. Morgan Stanley chair Jonathan Bloomer is also among the missing.
The yacht was battered during intense storms off the coast of Palermo, and the body of one man has been recovered. Fifteen people, including Mike's wife Angela have been rescued, according to local media. For Mike and his family, this luxury holiday had been a chance to celebrate after he was acquitted in a fraud case that had been ongoing for 12 long years.
Instead, their dream trip turned into a nightmare. Image: PERINI NAVI PRESS OFFICE/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) PERINI NAVI PRESS OFFICE/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) Staggering net worth The British-Irish entrepreneur has amassed an enormous fortune, but came from a fairly ordinary working-class background. Born to a fireman and a nurse, ambitious Mike started off his working life cleaning the floors of the hospital where his mother worked.
A scholarship to the prestigious Bancroft's School in Woodford Green led to a place at Cambridge University, where the clever student earned a PhD in mathematical computing, before kickstarting his first business in the late 1980s, with funds of just £2,000. In 1996, Mike founded software company Autonomy, centred around pr.