Mike Lynch: Cass Business School's new name is fitting tribute to information forefather Thomas Bayes Dr. Mike Lynch OBE is the founder of several tech firms, including Cambridge Neurodynamics, Autonomy, Darktrace and Luminance Sir John Cass was a major figure in the early development of the slave-trade and the Atlantic slave-economy, directly dealing with slave-agents in the African forts and in the Caribbean. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) It was encouraging to read the news Cass Business School has been renamed after the statistician Reverend Thomas Bayes who, unbeknownst to many of us, plays an important part in all our lives – including my own.