Date of Birth : July 9, 1954
Country / Birthplace : Montreal, Canada
Source of Income : Business
Age : 61 Year Old
Spouse : Linda O'Leary (m. 1990)
Children : Savannah O'Leary, Trevor O'Leary
Kevin O'Leary is a Canadian businessman, investor, journalist, writer, financial commentator and television personality . O'Leary was born in Montreal, Quebec to a Canadian father of Irish origin who worked as a salesman and a Canadian mother of Lebanese origin who was a seamstress turned small businesswoman and investor. Business has long ran in his family's bloodline, with his mother Georgette of Lebanese origin with distant Phoenician ancestry is descended from a long line of successful Lebanese businessmen and trade merchants
Business Career :
In 1979, between the first and second years of his MBA program, O'Leary applied to a number of companies for a summer placement. He was then picked for a four-month stint at Nabisco, a food conglomerate headquartered in downtown Toronto. Kevin worked briefly as an assistant brand manager at Nabisco Brands selling cat food after earning the position from a summer internship as a young MBA student where his main task was to increase market share for Nabisco's biggest cat food brand.
After leaving Nabisco, O'Leary began his brief career as a television producer before venturing into the software business. With two of his former MBA classmates Mackenzie and Dave Toms; both of whom had assisted on O'Leary’s successful MBA documentary, O'Leary co-founded Special Event Television (SET). SET was a moderately successful independent television production company that produced original sports programming such as "The Original Six", "Don Cherry's Grapevine" and "Bobby Orr and the Hockey Legends". The company met limited success producing minor television shows, soccer films, sports documentaries, and short in-between-period commercials for local professional hockey games
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