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Poppy Gustafsson ‘set to resign’ as investment minister

The former chief executive of cyber security firm Darktrace was appointed to the role in government in October last year.

Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2025

Former bosses of HSBC and Rolls-Royce knighted in new year honours

Noel Quinn and Warren East, as well as Chanel chief Leena Nair among business figures to be honoured

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2024

Former HSBC and Rolls-Royce bosses knighted

The chiefs of Network Rail, Chanel and the British Business Bank are also among those from the business world receiving honours.

Evening Standard · Dec 30, 2024

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Ex-cybersecurity boss joins red benches to become investment minister

Baroness Poppy Gustafsson co-founded Darktrace in 2013.

Evening Standard · Nov 18, 2024

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 · Oct 29, 2024

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) · Oct 11, 2024

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 · Oct 10, 2024

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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 · Oct 1, 2024

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 · Sep 21, 2024

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 · Sep 6, 2024

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 · Sep 6, 2024

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 · Sep 6, 2024

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 · Sep 6, 2024

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 · Aug 27, 2024

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Fortune · Aug 23, 2024

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 · Jul 24, 2024

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.

Evening Standard · Jan 8, 2024

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

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2023

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 · Mar 8, 2023

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 · Mar 8, 2023

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 · Feb 1, 2023

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 · Sep 8, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2022

‘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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