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

Poppy Gustafsson, the co-founder and chief executive of the British cybersecurity firm Darktrace, is to leave the company after its $5.3bn (4.2bn) sale to the US private equity business Thoma Bravo.

Gustafsson, one of the most well-known figures in the UK tech industry, founded Darktrace in Cambridge in 2013 with backing from the late billionaire Mike Lynch's Invoke Capital.