Paul Pilzer

Paul Zane Pilzer is a world-renowned economist, a multimillionaire entrepreneur, a lay rabbi, a college professor and the author of five bestselling books.

Pilzer completed college in three years and received his MBA from Wharton in fifteen months at age 22. At age 24, he was appointed adjunct professor at New York University, where he taught for twenty consecutive years. While employed as Citibank's youngest officer at age 22 and its youngest vice p resident at age 25, Pilzer started several entrepreneurial businesses-earning his first $1 million before age 26 and his first $10 million before age 30. Over the past twenty years, Pilzer has started and/or taken public, more than five companies in the areas of software, education and financial services.

He was an appointed economic advisor in two presidential administrations and warned of the impending $200-billion savings and loan crisis years before official Washington was willing to listen-a story that he later told in the book Other People's Money which was critically acclaimed by the New York Times and The Economist magazine.

Pilzer's next book, Unlimited Wealth, explained how we live in a world of unlimited physical resources because of rapidly advancing technology. After reading Unlimited Wealth, the late Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, said that he was "amazed at Pilzer's business capacity" and his "ability to put it into layman's terms." Pilzer then went on to write God Wants You To Be Rich. It explained how the foundation of our economic system is based on our Judeo-Christian heritage. This New York Times business bestseller was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and on television shows ranging from 60 Minutes to First Person with Maria Shriver. It has been published in 18 languages.

Pilzer's newest bestsellers, The Next Trillion and The Wellness Revolution, expose our trillion-dollar food and medical industries and identifies a newly emerging "wellness" industry that will soon occupy an additional one-seventh, or "next trillion," of our economy-an industry in which the fortunes of the new millennium will be created.

Pilzer, a former commentator on National Public Radio and CNN, has appeared three times on the Larry King Live! television program and on the cover of several national magazines. He speaks live each year to approximately 500,000 people, and more than 10 million audio and video copies of his speeches have been sold.

He lives in Utah with his wife and children where they are avid snowboarders, mountain bikers and chess players.