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American Express president Gilligan dies after becoming ill on flight

American Express Co. president Ed Gilligan died suddenly Friday morning.

By Elizabeth Dexheimer, Bloomberg | Updated on May 29, 2015
In this July 19, 2011, file photo, passers-by walk past an American Express logo near the entrance to a bank in the Harvard Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

(Bloomberg) – American Express Co. president Ed Gilligan died Friday morning after becoming ill on an overseas flight to New York.

Gilligan, 55, was returning from a business trip to Tokyo on a corporate aircraft, which made an emergency landing, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and the cause of death is undetermined, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing a personal issue.

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