CNBC’s Deutsch to discuss career successes
Donny Deutsch spent last night in Manhattan with Donald Trump. It was a ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ party, hosted by both Kodak – a sponsor of the hit NBC reality show-and Trump.
He flies to Syracuse this morning and will be on campus at 1:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III to speak about his advertising, entrepreneurial and personal success.
Currently, Deutsch is the host of CNBC’s ‘The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch’ and chairman of Deutsch, Inc. – a full-service advertising firm that represents Johnson and Johnson, DirecTV, IKEA and Olympus cameras, among others.
His talk show – which airs weeknights at 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. on CNBC – features interviews with business tycoons, billionaires and celebrities, most recently Matthew McConaughey and David Hyde Pierce.
‘I recommend all inspiring to-be entrepreneurs to watch this show,’ Jayme Hansen, a grad student in the Whitman School of Management, said in an e-mail. ‘It is a great source of inspiration and ideas and a source for obtaining the first steps in developing a business or product.’
According to his biography on CNBC, Deutsch worked to transform his small advertising firm, which he inherited from his father, into a multi-billion dollar company. He sold it in 2000 to Interpublic Group of Companies for $265 million.
In 2005 he penned the business book ‘Often Wrong, Never in Doubt.’
Today, he has offices in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto and serves on the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Work Executive Committee and the Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s Foundation Board of Directors.
He makes his home in Manhattan in the Trump Towers, and has appeared on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ with Donald Trump and ‘Match Game.’ He served as a lead member of the Clinton/Gore communications team in 1992 and is a potential Democratic candidate for the 2009 New York City mayoral election.
‘I’m an ad major and he’s a huge icon,’ said Paul Savaiano, a junior advertising and psychology major. ‘The awe factor…I know his story and he’s not limited by the parameters of just advertising. I want to learn that by example.’
Published on February 7, 2008 at 12:00 pm
