Chamberlain He had been tried in a fraud case in the United States alongside Mike Lynch who were later acquitted.
“The pedestrian involved in a collision on Saturday died in hospital,” police said in a statement, giving his identity: Stephen Chamberlain was 52 years old.
The accident occurred one day before the shipwreck occurred on the Italian island of Sicily, where British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s sailboat sank, supposedly hit by a waterspout.
Chamberlain era Former Vice President of Finance at Autonomy, the company founded by Lynch, considered the “Bill Gates of England”.
Chamberlain died after being hit by a vehicle in the Cambridge area on Saturday morning, in the east of England. The driver, a 49-year-old woman, is cooperating with the investigation, according to police, who are seeking witnesses to the accident.
His lawyer, Gary Lincenberg, told British media that Chamberlain was jogging when he was hit.
Chamberlain and Lynch were acquitted in June this year at a trial in San Francisco. for a fraud case related with the sale of Autonomy to the HP group for $11 billion in 2011.
One year after the purchase, HP accused Autonomy of manipulating its accountsdenouncing “significant accounting irregularities.”
Stephen Chamberlain worked for Autonomy from 2005 to 2012.
The British media was quick to raise an eyebrow when they heard of the two men’s consecutive deaths.
And they published the fact that a co-defendant in this case for fraud and who was also acquitted died after being run over this weekend by a vehicle while jogging in the town of Stretham, in the English county of Cambridgeshire.