High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr Michael Richard Lynch OBE, FREng is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Autonomy Corporation. His entrepreneurship is associated with Silicon Fen. He is a leader in the area of computer understanding of unstructured information, an area which is becoming known as meaning-based computing. In October 2011, Autonomy was sold to Hewlett Packard for $11bn, making Lynch a dollar billionaire.