Insurance firm Hiscox has appointed an interim chair following the death of Jonathan Bloomer (pictured) this week.
Bloomer, also chair of Morgan Stanley International, was among at least six people drowned in the Bayesian yacht tragedy on Monday.
Hiscox has appointed senior independent director Colin Keogh as interim chair.
The bodies of Bloomer, his wife Judy, Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, and tech tycoon Mike Lynch have been recovered by divers who smashed through the windows of the superyacht sunk off the coast of Sicily by a freak weather event.
Canadian Broadcasting Company News previously reported that the body of Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian-born Antiguan resident who served as the ship’s cook, has also been recovered.
There were 22 people on board the 184ft luxury yacht owned by Lynch, 59, when it was reportedly caught up in a waterspout – a tornado formed over water – and sunk quickly. It now rests 49 metres below the surface, about half a mile from the Palermo coast.
The British-flagged vessel – named after Bayesian Theory, which formed the basis of Lynch’s PhD thesis and the technology of his former company Autonomy – was anchored 700 metres from the port of Porticello in when it was caught up in the bad weather.
Sources say 15 people were rescued, including a one-year-old child and Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares.
Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is the one person still missing. Vincenzo Zagarola told the PA news agency that the Italian Coastguard believes her body is somewhere inside the boat.
Lynch was recently cleared of 15 counts of fraud – and a potential 20 years behind bars apiece – in a San Francisco trial over the 2011 sale of Cambridge firm Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for $11.1 billion.
Stephen Chamberlain, former VP of finance at Autonomy – cleared of fraud alongside Lynch – died in a separate tragedy at the weekend after he was struck by a car in Cambridgeshire.