As one of the titular “sharks” on ABC’s Shark Tank, Kevin O’Leary, also known as “Mr. Wonderful,” quickly became one of the most compelling figures on the panel because of his astute, incisive, and entertaining evaluations of both potential entrepreneurs and their business ideas.
After earning his MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, O’Leary founded Special Event Television, which produced original sports programming such as The Original Six, Don Cherry’s Grapevine, and Bobby Orr and the Hockey Legends. In 1986, O’Leary founded SoftKey Software Products (later called The Learning Company), the first software company to apply the principles of consumer goods marketing to the software industry. In 2003, O’Leary co-founded Storage Now, a leading developer of climate-controlled storage facilities. In 2007, O’Leary became a founding investor and Director of Boston-based Stream Global Services Inc., focused on the growing outsourcing business services market.
O’Leary is the founder and Chief Sommelier of O’Leary Fine Wines as well as a member of Boston’s 107- year old Hamilton Trust. In addition to Shark Tank, O’Leary is a regular contributor on ABC, CNBC and CTV, and a bestselling author of Cold Hard Truth, Men, Women and Money, and Cold Hard Truth on Family, Kids and Money.
