Donny Deutsch
Donald Deutsch (born November 22, 1957) is an American CNBC commentator and former American advertising executive and former host of the CNBC talk show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.
Early life
Deutsch was born in Queens, New York. He is a 1969 graduate of NYC P.S. 188, Martin Van Buren High School, in Queens and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., an advertising agency company founded by his father that is owned by Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for $265 million.
In 2005, Harper Collins published Deutsch's business motivation book, Blowhard: Often Wrong, Never in Doubt, written with co-author Peter Knobler.
Deutsch was the host of the CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch which was cancelled on December 5, 2008.
Personal life
Deutsch resides at Trump Park Avenue, 502 Park Avenue, Penthouse 23.[1] He is divorced from Stacy Josloff, whom he married in 2000. Deutsch's former girlfriend, Amanda Zacharia, gave birth to their daughter, Daisy, in 2007 after they had already broken up.[2]
Deutsch, who is renovating a $21 million townhouse at 6 East 78th Street that he purchased in 2006, also bought a 3.3-acre estate on East Hampton's Further Lane for $29 million.
Notes
- ^ Reported in the December 2006 issue of Haute Living
- ^ http://www.nypost.com/seven/12112008/gossip/pagesix/tv_sage_caught_in_illicit_kiss_143571.htm
External links
- DonnyDeutsch.com
- Deutsch, Inc.
- The Big Idea (a redirect to the CNBC blog 15838512)
- Donny Deutsch profile at CNBC Anchors & Reporters
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