Who is Jonathan Bloomer, Morgan Stanley's chairman who is presumed dead in the Bayesian yacht disaster?

Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer is among the missing after a tornado struck a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily on Monday. Billionaire tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, dubbed the "British Bill Gates," as well as his daughter and three others, is also missing and presumed dead. The disaster came weeks after Lynch was acquitted in the U.

S. of fraud charges. Bloomer—who has served as Morgan Stanley's chair for almost eight years and is also the chair of insurance group Hiscox, according to his LinkedIn profile—played a small role in the trial.

Lynch, 59, founded software company Autonomy in 1996 and sold it to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 for $11 billion. HP paid a 60% premium over Autonomy's stock price, but just one year after the blockbuster deal, HP reported an $8.8 billion write-down, attributing over $5 billion of that to inflated revenue data from Autonomy.

Lynch was charged with 16 counts of conspiracy and fraud, with one fraud charge later dismissed. In June, Lynch was acquitted of fraud and cleared of charges. Bloomer, 70, served on Autonomy's audit committee and as a non-executive on the company's board in 2010.

He also testified during Lynch's trial, telling the court in May that Lynch was "more interested in the strategy, new products, new areas to look at, potential acquisitions," rather than looking at the financial side of the company. The trip..

. Sasha Rogelberg.