J Michael Cline, who founded the online movie ticketing company Fandango in 2000, fell to his death from the 20th floor of The Kimberly Hotel in midtown Manhattan in an apparent suicide Tuesday morning.
According to a statement from NYPD, "Upon arrival, officers found an unconscious and unresponsive male with injuries indicative of a fall from an elevated position. An investigation remains ongoing."
Mr. Cline was 64.
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Cline stayed with Fandango, which was acquired by Comcast in 2007, until 2011. After Fandango, the well known entrepreneur founded other companies including R1 RCM, Accolade, Insureon, Everspring, Exult and Accumen, and was a founding managing partner of Accretive LLC.
In 2013, he was a vice chairman at the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, founded by Greenwich's Ray Dalio.
He earned a Bachelor of Science from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration – Entrepreneurism, and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.
Cline founded a leading conservation organization, Panthera, to save wild tigers, writing on LinkedIn, "There are 3,500 tigers remaining in the wild from Russia to Indonesia. There are 10,000 in captivity in the United States. ?!"
His LinkedIn also has a dose of humor.
Cline listed his first job as Founder, CEO of Penguin Warmups in 1982. He wrote, "Was the first person to import hand warmers (the kind you buy when skiing) from Japan. Business failed. I had no idea what I was doing. Seriously."
Cline owned a home in back country Greenwich. Police reported his resided in Palm Beach, Florida.
He was married to Pamela Cline. The couple had six children together.
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