Darktrace’s top table and its links to Autonomy

The links between Autonomy and Darktrace were manifold, with dozens of Autonomy staff going on to work for the security firm, including several senior executives. Poppy Gustafsson, CEO of Darktrace until September and described as one of the company’s co-founders, was previously a corporate controller at Autonomy. While there’s no suggestion Gustafsson was involved in any criminal activity, court documents reveal she was involved in Autonomy’s financial dealings. For example, one of the accusations levelled at Autonomy by HP was that a Q3 2009 earnings call “amounted to a pack of lies”, with HP specifically questioning the amounts that Autonomy had claimed to invest in R&D (tinyurl.com/363judgment). When cross-examined during the 2022 civil case brought by HP, Gustafsson told the court that a $2.5 million R&D figure attributed to a…

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