Carol Roth

Roth put out a legacy and wishes planning product called Future File, as a direct result of her father’s death.

Roth hosted the final season of Microsoft’s Office Small Business Academy.

Roth was born in the northern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois and attended Deerfield High School. Her father Bernie was a retired union electrician (died in May 2013). Her parents divorced while she was in high school and her mother Sheri died from leukemia in 1998, as did her step-mother from lung cancer in 2004. She attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated magna cum laude in 1995.

Roth acts as a fill-in host and co-host for a variety of stations in Chicago and New York, including AM560 and 710WOR. Roth hosted “The Noon Show” on WGN Radio from January to June 2013. Previously, she co-hosted episodes of American Entrepreneur Radio with Suzanne Caplan, focused on entrepreneurship and business.

Roth is an advocate for entrepreneurship and small business. She was named a Top 100 Small Business Influencer by Small Biz Trends in 2011 and again in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. A number of her television segments and writings are related to small business and she was the event moderator for the New York Times Small Business Summit in 2012. Roth speaks and moderates panels frequently and received a standing ovation from Richard Branson at a Virgin Atlantic event that she moderated in 2016.

Roth writes regularly for a number of online publications, including op-ed columns at FoxNews.com and FoxBusiness.com. Previously, she had a featured blog called “Make Your Pitch” at The New York Times and blogs at the Huffington Post and Entrepreneur.com where she covered Business, Political, and Women’s Issue postings. In 2011, Roth authored Sober Entrepreneurship, a manifesto which was published through Change This. She wrote an article for CNBC.com proposing the legalization of insider trading.

Roth released her first book, The Entrepreneur Equation, in 2010. The book, which was listed on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists, won an Axiom Gold Medal Business book award. Reviewers particularly focused on the book’s direct tone and highlight Roth’s “reality checks” for readers. Initially, there was a controversy with buyers over the book’s cover, which featured a picture of her, but she insisted on keeping it.

Roth has been actively appearing on television since 2010. Roth was a permanent judge for the reality competition series America’s Greatest Makers on TBS. She has been featured as a guest, co-host and panelist on a variety of national cable news networks, and has recurring roles on Fox Business’ Bulls & Bears as a member of the panel. She has also had recurring roles on Cavuto Coast-to-Coast, Making Money with Charles Payne, Varney&Co where she often appeared as a second-hour co-host, CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, CNBC’s Closing Bell, MSNBC’s Your Business, Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, Fox News’ America Live with Megyn Kelly, Fox Business’ The Tom Sullivan Show and Fox Business’ The Willis Report. Her coverage of business, economic, political, and current events included discussion panel appearances during the United States 2012 elections. She has interviewed celebrities, presidential candidates and business leaders.

Roth joined San Francisco based investment bank Montgomery Securities in 1995 as a financial analyst and member of the consumer corporate finance team. She became an officer of the firm by age 25.

Carol Roth (born 1973) is an American television personality, bestselling author, entrepreneur, radio host, and investor. Roth appears regularly on national cable television networks including Fox Business, CNBC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. She was one of the judges on Mark Burnett’s America’s Greatest Makers television show and is a weekly panelist on the current events and business show Bulls & Bears. She was the host of WGN Radio’s The Noon Show, and author of the New York Times bestseller book, The Entrepreneur Equation. As a self-styled “recovering” investment banker, she has completed more than $2 billion in capital raising, mergers & acquisitions and related transactions and invests in private companies.