Bill Rancic Speaker & Booking Information
The Winner of the first "The Apprentice," Donald Trump's hit reality TV Show
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Speaker Bio
True entrepreneur, Bill Rancic was born May 16, 1971 and was the first candidate hired on national television by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality business show, The Apprentice.
Rancic was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the suburb Orland Park, of Croatian and Irish extraction. He went to St. Michaels School in Orland, and graduated from Carl Sandburg High School.
Rancic attended Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois for his freshman year of college, majoring in Criminal Justice with a focus on going to law school. During this time Rancic's father took a teaching job at Loyola University Chicago, allowing Rancic the free tuition benefit enjoyed by all dependents of faculty members. He eventually received a Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola University, graduating cum laude in 1994. However, he did not attend law school.
During his college years Rancic worked at FAO Schwarz as a security guard. Next he took up a boat detailing business on the side prior to starting his online cigar business.
He started his own cigar business, which helped him negotiate the price of a cigar during one of Trump's tasks of negotiation.
Rancic is also an international motivational speaker hired by corporations, universities and organizations to give talks on success in business and life. He is also a real estate developer (residential and commercial) mainly in and around downtown Chicago and designs properties under his banner, Bill Rancic Homes.
In September 2007, Rancic co-hosted iVillage's In the Loop with iVillage. The show was renamed and relaunched from the NBC Tower in Chicago after its June failure of the daytime TV talk show, In the Loop with iVillage. of the original IVillage Live tv show in Florida. In September 2008, Rancic began as host for the A&E reality show, We Mean Business, in which small business owners undergo business make-overs.
In 2008, Rancic and his wife, TV host Giuliana Rancic-DePandi started a joint television production company, You and I Productions, which produces reality and scripted programming for television.