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The Standard 100: People shaping London in business, tech and money

John Boumphrey, Poppy Gustafsson and Mustafa Suleyman are among the top hundred people shaping the capital in 2024

Evening Standard

Fury as Keir Starmer appoints another peer to fill Government post

KEIR Starmer has been slammed for appointing another new peer to fill a Government post – despite previous pledges to abolish the House of Lords.

The National (Scotland)

Ex-Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson appointed UK investment minister

Co-founder of £4bn British tech firm to lead Office for Investment as a minister in Treasury and Department of Business and Trade

The Guardian - UK

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Thoma Bravo closes $5.3bn Darktrace acquisition

Co-founder and former Mike Lynch protégé Poppy Gustafsson stepped down as CEO weeks before the acquisition closed.

Fortune

Mike Lynch's sunken yacht may hold highly classified information that Russia and China would want

Two watertight safes onboard the yacht may have super-encrypted hard drives that contain classified information like passcodes, sources told CNN.

Fortune

Former Mike Lynch protégé Poppy Gustafsson suddenly steps down as Darktrace CEO

Darktrace announced cofounder Gustafsson, who worked for Mike Lynch at Autonomy, would be stepping down with immediate effect.

Fortune

Darktrace CEO out as takeover deal confirmed

POPPY Gustafsson is quitting Darktrace with immediate effect just ahead of a £4.3 billion takeover of the business by US private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

Evening Standard

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Poppy Gustafsson to leave Darktrace after sale to US private equity firm

Co-founder of British cybersecurity company says ‘now is the right time to hand over the reins’, to Jill Popelka

The Guardian - UK

Telegram to shake-up features; markets slide after US job creation misses forecasts – as it happened

Telegram boss Pavel Durov announces a new approach towards moderating content and will remove some features that had been abused for illegal activity.

The Guardian - UK

Billionaire Autonomy cofounder Mike Lynch’s and Stephen Chamberlain’s careers were intertwined for years in a fraud trial. Then they died on the same day miles apart

Mike Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain were codefendants in a U.S. fraud trial. Here’s what we know about Chamberlain in the years preceding his death in the U.K., on the same day as Lynch’s yacht disaster in Italy.

Fortune

Guest list for Mike Lynch's fatal boat party filled with Autonomy players

Former employees of Autonomy, key figures in the HP acquisition, and lawyers who defended Lynch were all on board the Bayesian superyacht.

Fortune

Leading the charge: These 25 female-heavy C-suites highlight the dearth of women in Europe's boardrooms

Meet the 25 companies smashing the glass ceiling in Europe.

Fortune

The Standard’s share tips — how did we do in 2023?

If you’d bought the City desk's 2023 portfolio, you would have finished the year up almost 20% — and beaten most of the City's top-paid stock pickers

Evening Standard

AI Safety Summit discussions not focused on killer robots, says Darktrace boss

AI cyber security firm Darktrace’s chief executive, Poppy Gustafsson, said the summit’s meetings have been more ‘measured’ than she expected.

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The Guardian - UK

Darktrace warns of rise in AI-enhanced scams since ChatGPT release

Cybersecurity firm notes emergence of sophisticated email scams featuring improved linguistic complexity

Birmingham Post

International Women's Day: 23 top British women business leaders for 2023

BusinessLive shines a light on some of the thousands of women exemplifying leadership around the UK

The Guardian - UK

Darktrace boss defends UK cybersecurity firm amid short-seller attacks

Embattled firm to launch £75m share buyback to bolster stock price after criticism of sales and marketing

Evening Standard

Darktrace shares tumble as talks with private equity buyer fail

Thoma Bravo walks away from one of London’s hottest tech companies as another deal in the sector flounders

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The Guardian - UK

‘Toxic’: Darktrace’s future clouded by concerns over culture and fraud case

Analysts have also criticised the cybersecurity firm’s business model but a US private equity fund is still pondering a takeover

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