The problems arose after the sale of his company Autonomy to HP - then run by Leo Apotheker - in 2011 for £8.6billion. The decision, described by Lynch family friend Patrick Jacob as 'completely lacking humanity', is another questionable judgment by a firm that critics say is guilty of a litany of failings over decades. During his tenure, he completed the Autonomy deal as he tried to turn HP into a thriving enterprise software business. Under Whitman, HP also undertook its most dramatic transformation yet. The tragedy for the Lynch family is that even in death they cannot escape HP's clutches.
