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Daniel Levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Levy_(businessman)

Levy became a director of the Scottish football club Rangers, in which ENIC held a significant stake until 2004.[12] ENIC also held stakes in other European football clubs including AEK Athens, Slavia Prague, FC Basel and Vicenza (but all since sold),[13][14] as well as non-football companies such as Warner Bros Restaurants and a Cambridge software company, Autonomy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Autonomy

Autonomy was founded in Cambridge, England by Michael Lynch, David Tabizel and Richard Gaunt in 1996 as a spin-off from Cambridge Neurodynamics, a firm specializing in computer-based finger print recognition

Michael Lynch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Richard_Lynch

Michael Richard Lynch OBE DL FRS FREng (born 16 June 1965)[1] is an entrepreneur with a scientific background. He is the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation and the founder of Invoke Capital, and has several other roles, including membership of the Council for Science and Technology which advises the UK government. His entrepreneurship is associated with Silicon Fen.

He is a member of the board of Cambridge Enterprise,[24] and a member of the Council for Science and Technology.[25] He is also a member of the Council of the Foundation for Science and Technology[26] and a Hub Mentor in the Enterprise Hub of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[27] Lynch is a trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,[28] and a member of the board of the Create the Change Campaign at the Crick Institute, for Cancer Research UK

..He has previously served as a non-executive director to the board of the BBC,[14] on the board of the British Library,[31] and as a trustee of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), where he was chairman of their investment committee

..On 29 November 2018 he was indicted for fraud in relation to the 2011 deal with HP.

More at : Inside the life of Mike Lynch, who sold his search startup to HP for $11 billion and was charged with fraud

Lynch also sold some of his fingerprint machines to South Yorkshire Police.

[and connections with eBay] n September 2011, Apotheker was replaced by former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. She remained committed to the Autonomy deal but she and Lynch didn't always see eye-to-eye.

In the meantime, Lynch planned a $1 billion (£770 million) fund called Invoke Capital to invest in fundamental European technologies...One of the first companies Lynch has backed is cybersecurity firm Darktrace, which has its origins in Cambridge. Darktrace director of technology Dave Palmer used to work for MI5.

Following the charges, Lynch has stepped back from his public activities. He stepped from the board of Darktrace, and as an advisor to the Royal Society, and the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tabizel

David Tabizel (born January 1965) is an internet and media entrepreneur, who was the co-founder of a number of successful technology startups such as 365 Corporation (Football 365, Rugby 365 etc.),[1] Demon Internet, Autonomy, Rage Software, Durlacher (now Panmure Gordon) and others.

..He was also involved in the forming and founding of Metrodome Film in the UK and in Ginger Media's purchase of Virgin Radio in the late 1990s. He also purchased Laughing Stock, Europe's leading comedy record label in the mid-1990s, a company whose artists included Eddie Izzard, Bill Hicks, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Rowan Atkinson and Arnold Brown.

Tabizel is credited with writing one of the first books on the Internet in 1991 [4] and also wrote an influential work anticipating the Internet boom of the 1990s in "The Internet an Investment Perspective" (Financial Publications Ltd 1994). Tabizel wrote an exhaustive study of the video games industry in 1993. Three of the companies co-formed by Tabizel, Durlacher, 365 Corporation and Autonomy each achieved stock market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion. Eckoh PLC a spin-off from 365 Corporation is now a London stock market quoted telecoms company.