Who is Jonathan Bloomer, the chairman of Morgan Stanley who is presumed dead in the Bayesian yacht disaster?

Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer is among those missing after a tornado hit a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily on Monday. Billionaire tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, nicknamed “British Bill Gates”, as well as his daughter and three others, are also missing and presumed dead.

The disaster came weeks after Lynch was acquitted in the US of fraud charges. Bloomer — who was chairman of Morgan Stanley for nearly eight years and is also chairman of insurance group Hiscox, according to his LinkedIn profile — played a small role in the process.

Lynch, 59, founded software company Autonomy in 1996 and sold it to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 for $11 billion. HP paid a 60% premium to Autonomy’s share price, but just a year after the successful deal, HP reported an $8.8 billion write-down, attributing more than $5 billion of that to inflated data from revenues from Autonomy. Lynch was charged with 16 counts of conspiracy and fraud, and one count of fraud was later dismissed. In June, Lynch was acquitted of fraud and cleared of the charges.

Bloomer, 70, served on Autonomy’s audit committee and as a non-executive on the company’s board in 2010. He also testified during Lynch’s trial, telling the court in May that Lynch is ” more interested in strategy, new products, new areas for look at potential acquisitions,” rather than the financial side of the company.

The trip on board Bayesian it was a celebration following the decades-long trial, but Bloomer and Lynch were declared missing after high winds and a water vortex hit and capsized the superyacht. There were 22 passengers on board the 180-foot sailing yacht, 15 of whom were rescued and one who was pronounced dead. Italian emergency services brought Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, who owned the yacht, to safety. Bloomer’s wife remains missing.

The Bayesian The yacht crash has odd timing: It coincided with the death of Lynch’s co-defendant, Stephen Chamberlain, who died after being hit by a car in Cambridgeshire, England, on Saturday.

“We are deeply shocked and saddened by this tragic event,” Hiscox chief executive Aki Hussain said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with all those affected, especially our chair Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy, who are among the missing, and their families as they await further news from this terrible situation.”

Hiscox’s lead independent director Colin Keogh will serve as interim chairman, the company said wealth. Morgan Stanley did not respond wealthhis request for comment.

Bloomer’s tumultuous career

Prior to his tenure at Morgan Stanley and Hiscox, Bloomer was managing director of insurance firm Prudential Financial; he was ousted in 2005. The timing of Bloomer’s rise through the ranks was inopportune, coinciding with the dotcom crash and 9/11, which sent Prudential stock prices down 40 percent.

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Around that time, Bloomer proposed buying US insurer American General, a move that was largely condemned due to American International Group’s bid for the company outbidding Prudential’s, as well as a lack of investor confidence in the acquisition that sent Prudential shares tumbling. Bloomer had to back off the move, but by proposing the takeover, it exposed Prudential’s relatively weak presence in the US.

To make matters worse, Prudential’s internet banking arm, Egg, failed to meet expectations, but Bloomer was unable to find a suitable buyer. Prudential eventually sold Egg to Citigroup for about $750 million in 2007, but the company estimated an operating loss of $190 million from Egg, twice what it had originally expected.

Investor clamor peaked in 2004 when Bloomer launched a surprise $1.3 billion rights issue in an effort to expand the company’s UK business, despite having to allay concerns that the company had need to raise more capital to do so. The CEO was fired less than a year later and replaced by HBO’s chief financial officer, Mark Tucker. Bloomer called it “part of the ups and downs of corporate life.”

“We had to manage the company through difficult times and not everything made us popular,” he said at the time. “But my task has been to lead a transformation, and Prudential is now fairly set to continue to deliver substantial growth and returns.”

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