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Jim Crown attends The Aspen Institute’s thirty third Annual Awards Dinner at The Plaza Lodge on November 3, 2016 in New York Town.
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James Crown, a billionaire businessman who held a number of management roles together with board member of JPMorgan Chase, died Sunday in a racing twist of fate in Colorado.
Crown, who additionally became 70 on Sunday, died within the single-vehicle crash after colliding with an affect barrier at Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek, Colorado, The Colorado Solar reported.
Amongst his many jobs, Crown used to be chairman and CEO of his circle of relatives trade, the funding company Henry Crown and Corporate. Along with serving at the JPMorgan board, he used to be additionally a board director at Basic Dynamics. Crown had served on JPMorgan’s board because the early Nineteen Nineties.
“We lengthen our inner most condolences to Jim’s circle of relatives and family members right through this extremely tough time,” Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, stated in a remark. “Our ideas also are with all of you who knew and beloved Jim, up to I did. He used to be an integral a part of JPMorgan Chase and our lives, and his presence might be deeply ignored.”
“The Crown circle of relatives is deeply saddened by means of the surprising passing of Jim Crown,” a circle of relatives consultant stated in a remark to media. “The circle of relatives requests that their privateness be revered at this tough time.”
Crown lived in Chicago however ceaselessly traveled to Colorado, and he held further positions at organizations in each states. He used to be a managing spouse of Aspen Snowboarding Co., chair emeritus of the Aspen Institute and a trustee at 3 establishments: the Museum of Science and Business, the Civic Committee and the College of Chicago. In 2014, President Barack Obama appointed Crown to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Native officers are these days investigating the crash.
“The reliable reason for dying is pending post-mortem even if more than one blunt power trauma is obvious. The way is twist of fate,” the Pitkin County Coroner’s Place of business stated in a information liberate.
Forbes estimated the Crown circle of relatives’s wealth at $10.2 billion in 2020.
Crown is survived by means of his spouse, 4 youngsters and his oldsters.
