Donny Deutsch
Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch is an advertising executive and host of the CNBC talk show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.
Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. advertising agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $265 million.
He is also the managing partner of Deutsch Open City, an independent production company.
In 2005, Harper Collins published Deutsch's business motivation book, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt, written with co-author Peter Knobler.
Currently, Deutsch is the host of the CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. He has also made appearances on the NBC show The Apprentice, starring Donald Trump.
Deutsch is a 1969 graduate of P.S. 188 (Queens, NY, USA), Martin Van Buren High School.
He is a known resident of Trump Park Avenue, as reported in the December 2006 issue of Haute Living. He and his wife, Stacy Josloff, whom he married in 2000, are presently separated.
He was also one of the contestants on the classic game show Match Game, appearing in an episode that originally aired on January 2, 1979.
He is a potential Democratic candididate of the 2009 New York City mayoral election.
Deutsch graduated from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
“If you can’t embrace failure, or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can’t be wildly successful.”
“You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights....”
“When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?”