British boss of cloud computing firm at centre of takeover battle between Hewlett-Packard and Dell lands massive reward The British boss of a little-known Silicon Valley data storage company, 3Par, is set to become one of the UK’s wealthiest technology moguls, scooping a personal fortune of $96m (£65m) following a bid battle for the loss-making business between Hewlett-Packard and Dell. David Scott, 3Par’s chief executive, is the son of a Jamaican father and an English mother. The 48-year-old was born in the Caribbean but grew up in London and studied computer science at Bristol University