Gerald Cotten

About

Entrepreneur and crypto trader who is best recognized for being the founder and CEO of QuadrigaCX, which was Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange at the time of its collapse. He died in 2018 after traveling to India.

Before Fame

In the year 2010, he graduated with a BA in business administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.   

Trivia

A documentary titled Dead Man's Switch: A Crypto Mystery about his story premiered at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. His story was also told in the Netflix documentary titled Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King, which was released in March of 2022. 

Family Life

He was married to Jennifer Robertson. 

Associated With

He and Vitalik Buterin are both known to have been involved with cryptocurrency.