(Reuters) - Mike Lynch, the wealthy tech founder once hailed as Britain's answer to Steve Jobs, will face a U.S. jury in California on Monday at a trial over the accusation he defrauded Hewlett-Packard in the $11 billion sale of his software company Autonomy.

Federal prosecutors in San Francisco accuse Autonomy co-founder Lynch and former finance executive Stephen Chamberlain of inflating the company's revenue starting in 2009 -- a scheme prosecutors say resulted in HP's disastrous acquisition of the company in 2011.