37-year-old JPMorgan executive may be the latest in a series of
bizarre deaths in the financial world in less than a month
Getty ImagesRyan Crane, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. employee
who in a 14-year career at the New York-based bank rose to executive director
of a unit that trades blocks of stocks for clients, died at the age of 37.
A 37-year-old
JPMorgan Chase & Co executive director who died from unknown causes Feb. 3
appears to be the latest in a series of untimely deaths among finance workers
and business leaders around the world in the past three weeks.Ryan Crane, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. employee who in a 14-year career at the New York-based bank rose to executive director of a unit that trades blocks of stocks for clients, died in his Stamford, Connecticut, home, according to the website of Leo P. Gallagher & Son Funeral Home in Greenwich, Connecticut. The cause of death will be determined when a toxicology report is completed in about six weeks, a spokeswoman for the state’s chief medical examiner told Bloomberg.
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“He was known as the ‘Gentle Giant’ by his friends and family,” according to the funeral home’s death notice.
This latest death in the U.S. follows a series of untimely deaths among finance workers and business leaders over the past three weeks.
On Sunday, Jan. 26, London police found William Broeksmit, a 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, dead in his home after an apparent suicide.
Monday, Jan. 27: Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym died after falling from a hotel room in Bangkok in what police said could be possible suicide.
Slym, 51, had attended a board meeting of Tata Motors’ Thailand unit in the Thai capital and was staying with his wife in a room on the 22nd floor of the Shangri-La hotel. Hotel staff found his body on Sunday on the fourth floor, which juts out above lower floors.
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
ImagesA person looks out of
the window of the JPMorgan building at Canary Wharf on January 28, 2014 in
London, England as police investigate the death of Gabriel Magee, whose body
was found on the 9th floor.
Tuesday,
Jan. 28: a 39-year-old JPMorgan employee died after falling from the roof of the European headquarters
of JPMorgan in London.The man, Gabriel Magee, was a vice president in the investment bank’s technology department, a source told WSJ.
YouTubeChief economist Mike Dueker, 50, had been
missing since Jan. 29
Wednesday,
January 29: Russell Investments’ Chief Economist Mike Dueker was found dead in an apparent
suicide. Police said it appears Dueker took his own life by jumping from a
ramp near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Tacoma, Wash., AP reported. According to
Bloomberg, Dueker, 50, had been missing since Jan. 29, and friends and law
enforcement had been searching for him.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the deaths among finance workers has shaken London and raised more concerns about stress levels of bankers.
It notes that last August, the finance chief at Zurich Insurance Group AG committed suicide and left a note blaming the company’s chairman for creating an unbearable work environment.
In August, a 21-year-old Bank of America intern died after reportedly working consecutive all-nighters at the bank’s London office.
Wall Street banks including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, subsequently told junior bankers to take more time off.
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