Autumn Radtke

Autumn Radtke ( businesswoman)
Died	28 February 2014  Singapore
Cause of death	fall
Victim of	premature death
Interests	cryptocurrencies
A tech-valley CEO of a bitcoin exchange who died a violent death, aged 28. It was ruled a suicide.

Autumn Radtke was CEO of First Meta, a Bitcoin exchange. According to the Daily Mail she was the "tenth death in six weeks in the global financial services sector" at the time. Also one of the earliest in a string of deaths of people involved in cryptocurrency.

Career

Radtke began work in the technology sector at the age of 22 as a consultant for Virgin Charter, where she worked with chairman and billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson. Later working for Apple and after that was involved with technology start-ups. Moving from California to Singapore in January 2012 when she was hired by Douglas Abrams to to take up the post as head of his virtual-currency exchange, First Meta.

Activities

She volunteered for the non-profit organization The Global Summit.

Connections

She knew former child actor Brock Pierce.

Death

Autumn Radtke was found dead, having fallen from her 16th storey apartment in Singapore. Local media reported it is a suicide. The Huffington Post and the Daily Mail termed it a "Suspected Suicide". The New York Post referred to it as a "questionable financial-sector death". Some were more skeptical. It happened the same day Mt. Gox, the world's largest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan.

Suicide ruling

The coroner ruled that the death was a suicide, noting that she had expressed suicidal thoughts separately to two of her friends in the days before her death and visited suicide-related websites.

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