Autonomy's Board of Directors

Autonomy is lead by a close-knit and highly experienced management team. They bring together extensive expertise covering every facet of information technology and its constituent sectors and markets.

Dr Michael Lynch, OBE, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Dr Mike Lynch OBE studied Engineering at Cambridge University and obtained a PhD in mathematical computing. He is a technology entrepreneur and is a pioneer of the Meaning Based Computing movement. Mike has founded a number of technology companies, including Autonomy, the UK's largest software company by market capitalization and a member of the FTSE 100. He has held a number of advisory and board roles in the venture capital industry and is currently a non-executive director of the BBC. He was named the Confederation of British Industry's Entrepreneur of the Year, the European Business Leaders Awards' Innovator of the Year for pioneering new approaches to search and information processing technology, and Management Today's Entrepreneur of the Year 2009. Mike won an IEE Award for Outstanding Achievement and was awarded an OBE for Services to Enterprise. He is also a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Lady Margaret Beaufort Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and the author of a number of academic papers on the subject of Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing.

Sushovan Hussain, Board Director and Chief Financial Officer

Sushovan Hussain has served as our Chief Financial Officer since June 2001 and was appointed a Director in June 2003. Prior to joining Autonomy, Mr Hussain worked for LASMO plc, one of the world's largest independent oil and gas exploration companies, where he held a number of senior international financial positions, including three years in the Corporate Development department, charged with acquisitions and divestments. Mr Hussain received his B.A. in Economics from Cambridge University, England, and became a qualified Chartered Accountant while employed at Ernst & Young in London.

Robert S Webb QC, Non-Executive Chairman

Robert S Webb QC (Queen's Counsel) was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board in May 2009. From 1998 through the end of March 2009 Mr Webb served as General Counsel at British Airways, and in that role was responsible for the legal function with oversight of Government and Industry Affairs, Safety and Security, Risk Management, Business Continuity and British Airways Health Services, and was also variously responsible for Environmental Policy and Corporate Responsibility. Prior to joining British Airways Mr Webb was called to The Bar, Inner Temple 1971, and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1988. Mr Webb served as Head of Chambers, 5 Bell Yard, London, from 1988 to 1998; Recorder of the Crown Court from 1993 to 1998; Bencher, Inner Temple 1997; and as Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Bar Council 1997/8. Mr Webb's other current engagements include: Non Executive Director of the London Stock Exchange since 2001, where he serves as Chair of the Remuneration Committee; Non Executive Director of the BBC since 2007, where he serves as Chair of the Fair Trading Committee; Non Executive Director of Hakluyt, a private business research company, since 2005, where he serves as Chair of the Remuneration Committee; and Non Executive Director of Argent Group Limited, a property company, since April 2009.

Barry Ariko, Board Director

Barry M. Ariko has served as a non-executive director of Autonomy since January 2000. From November 2003, Mr Ariko has served as CEO and President of Mirapoint, Inc., a leader in messaging networks. From January 2000, until it was acquired by Peregrine Systems in May 2001, he was Chairman, CEO and President of Extricity, Inc., a provider of software for the management of inter-company transactions and workflow. Prior to Extricity, he was Senior Vice President of AOL, which had acquired Netscape Communications Corp., where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer with primary responsibility for the enterprise software business since August 1998. From April 1994 to August 1998, Mr Ariko was Executive Vice President in charge of the Americas operations for Oracle Corp. Mr Ariko also serves as a director of Incyte and Aspect Communications. Mr Ariko holds a B.S. in Management from Golden Gate University in San Francisco and in 1992 completed the Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Richard Gaunt, Board Member

Richard G. Gaunt co-founded Autonomy and served as Technical Director from our inception in March 1996 to 2005. He currently serves as a member of Autonomy's Board. Prior to founding Autonomy, Mr Gaunt served as Technical Director of Cambridge Neurodynamics Limited since 1991. Mr Gaunt holds a BSc in electronic engineering and an MSc from the University of Natal in Durban. Mr Gaunt was appointed to the Board when Autonomy was founded in 1996.

John McMonigall, Board Director

John P. McMonigall has served as a non-executive director of Autonomy since July 1998. Since April 1990, Mr McMonigall has worked for Apax Partners Worldwide LLP, a private equity firm, where he is responsible for Apax' investments in private companies in telecommunications, software and related fields. From 1986 to 1990, Mr McMonigall held a variety of positions at British Telecom where he served as a member of the Management Board. He currently serves on the board of Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Mr McMonigall also serves on the boards of several privately owned companies as a non-executive director.

Richard N. Perle, Board Director

Richard N. Perle has acted as a non-executive director of Autonomy since February 2000. Mr Perle has also served as Resident Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research since 1987. From 1981 to 1987 he was the United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.

Mr Perle is a director of Hollinger International, Inc., a publicly traded company that publishes English language newspapers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Israel, and Tapestry Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of proprietary therapies for the treatment of cancer.

Mr Perle attended the London School of Economics with Honors Examinations, received an M.A. in politics from Princeton University and a B.A.. from the University of Southern California in international relations, and completed various fellowships at Princeton University, the Ford Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Mr Perle was appointed to the Board in February 2000.