Sicily yacht sinking: Morgan Stanley International chair Jonathan Bloomer among missing
Morgan Stanley International chairman #Jonathan #Bloomer is among those missing
after a yacht carrying UK tech entrepreneur #Mike #Lynch sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, an Italian official has said.
Salvatore Cocina, head of the civil protection agency in #Sicily, said Bloomer and #Chris #Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance, were among the six people missing.
Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, #Hannah, were also unaccounted for as of late Monday.
The update came as it was reported that Lynch’s 
co-defendant in a US trial related to the sale of his software company to Hewlett-Packard had died after being hit by a car in England.
The British-flagged #Bayesian,
a 56-metre sailboat, was carrying 22 people and anchored just off shore near the port of Porticello when it was hit by a tornado in the early hours of Monday morning
One man, understood to be the vessel’s chef, was confirmed dead. The coastguard said the missing had British, American and Canadian nationalities.
Fifteen people were rescued, including Lynch’s wife, #Angela #Bacares, who owned the boat, and a one-year-old girl who was saved by her mother.
A spokesperson for Lynch, the co-founder of #Autonomy, a software firm that became one of the shining lights of the UK tech scene, declined to comment.
Survivors said the trip had been organised by Lynch for his work colleagues.
Once described as Britain’s Bill Gates, Lynch spent much of the last decade in court defending his name against allegations of fraud related to the sale of his software firm, Autonomy, to the US tech company Hewlett-Packard for $11bn.
