Patrick Currivan

From September 11 Memories

Patrick Currivan (1949 - 2001) native of Dublin, Ireland was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11 crashed by terrorists into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Patrick committed his work life to helping organizations change.

He was a visionary early adopter, and champion of Internet technologies for business. He resided in Winchester, Massachusetts.

His friends knew him as "PJ" in early life and as "Paddy" in more recent years. To his family he was “Patrick”. He was the eldest of three children. He never married. He is survived by his sister, Helen, and by his brother Daniel.

He attended Synge Street CBS ([[1]]) and Trinity College, Dublin. He taught at St. Andrews University, Scotland for a year.

He worked with Groupe Bull in Paris, France for 20 years before moving to Boston. Ten years later, he returned to Paris, where he was a senior vice-president of Altos-Euronext.

Patrick was to attend a conference in Los Angeles. He had a airline ticket from Paris to LA. However he changed his ticket so that he could break his journey and visit old friends in Boston.

Patrick was seated in row 10 of American Airlines Flight 11. He was aged 52 years. He is remembered by a marble plaque on the wall of Whitestone Cemetery in Rush, County Dublin.