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Donny Deutsch
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Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch (born November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an advertising executive and talk show host.
Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $300 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," and is a periodic guest host of CNBC's "Squawk Box." He has also made appearances on the NBC hit The Apprentice, starring Donald Trump.
Deutsch is a graduate of Van Buren High School in Queens Village, New York City, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a known resident of Trump Park Avenue, as reported in the December 2006 issue of Haute Living.
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.