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Zeljka Matutinovic died July 2, 2006, in a moped accident while vacationing on Martha's Vineyard. She was 41.

Matutinovic, a native of Croatia, earned a master's and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Princeton.

Beginning her career with the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., she then went into investment banking with Credit Suisse First Boston, International Real Returns, and Jerusalem Venture Partners, specializing in telecom and investment-technology firms, before starting out on her own in 2005.

Active in the International Center at Princeton and the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, she was a member of the APGA' s board from 2001 to 2004 and of its reunions and graduate students committees.

She is survived by her parents, Zeljko and Katarina Matutinovic of Zagreb, Croatia, where her funeral was held. A memorial mass on July 18 at St. Cyril Catholic Church in Manhattan was attended by alumni and Dean of the Graduate School William B. Russel.

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