The rise and fall of Mike Lynch 2006 Lynch is named a non-executive director of the BBC and awarded an OBE 2008 Autonomy's technology plays a key role in tracking down the rogue Société Générale trader Jérôme Kerviel 2009 Lynch takes out another rival by paying £559m for US content management group Interwoven 2010, October, Autonomy issues a profit warning that sends it shares falling more than 20pc 2011, August Hewlett-Packard unveils a £7bn offer for Autonomy that is accepted by Lynch. Lynch's stake in the company nets him £500m 2011, September HP's acquisition of Autonomy is thrown into doubt after HP shareholders oust chief executive Leo Apotheker because of doubts about the company's strategy 2011, October The deal between HP and Autonomy is completed after the new chief executive of HP, Meg Whitman, decides to press ahead with the acquisition 2012, May Lynch is one of 27,000 HP workers to leave the company after a quarter in which HP and Autonomy failed to meet expectations 2012, November HP says that it will take a $8.8bn charge in the fourth quarter because of alleged "accounting improprieties" surrounding its acquisition of the company. It say that there was a "wilful effort on behalf of certain former Autonomy employees to inflate the underlying financial metrics of the company in order to mislead investors and potential buyers." Mr Lynch "flatly rejects" the claims by HP.