Leading entrepreneur joins Cambridge Enterprise board

Cambridge Enterprise, the University's commercialisation office, has announced that Dr Mike Lynch, one of Britain's most successful technology entrepreneurs, has joined its Board of Directors. Dr Lynch read Natural Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge and went on to complete a PhD in mathematical computing, followed by a research fellowship in adaptive pattern recognition. In 1996, he founded Autonomy, the UK's largest software company by market capitalisation and a member of the FTSE 100. The company specialises in Meaning Based Computing, a unique set of technologies which enable the searching and processing of structured and unstructured information to provide the most relevant content for users. The company has joint headquarters in Cambridge and San Francisco, and counts amongst its customers Coca-Cola, the BBC, Boeing, Adobe and the New York Stock Exchange. "We are delighted to have an entrepreneur of Mike's standing join the Cambridge Enterprise Board of Directors," said Chief Executive Teri Willey. "His success is a wonderful example of the impact that ideas originating from Cambridge have the world over." Dr Lynch has held a number of advisory and board roles in the venture capital industry and is currently a non-executive director of the BBC.