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John Anthony Palumbo (born 1956) is a businessman and motivational speaker based in Jacksonville, Florida, and the host of the "Investment Gambler" segment on WJXT, a Jacksonville television station. He is also the executive producer of the syndicated television series America's Dumbest Criminals. He has been interviewed as an expert in the field of sales training by a number of publications, including the Wall Street Journal.

Palumbo was born in 1956 in Birmingham, Alabama, the youngest of four children. His father, Leonard, was a modest homebuilder and his mother, Joann, was a stay-at-home mother. He realized early that he had a mind for business. Palumbo attended college, but did not graduate.

Palumbo has at least a dozen businesses, many of which target the acquisition of undervalued properties. One of his first companies was The Sterling Group, described as an idea studio for sales and marketing management; Palumbo is the CEO.

He is the principal of the firm, Bankruptcy Asset Management, and one of the nation's leading authorities on the evaluation and liquidation of unusual assets in bankruptcy. He has written on the topic of recognizing value in items dismissed as worthless.

Over the last two decades, Mr. Palumbo has taken part in many successful business deals. His unorthodox but effective style gave him the rights to intellectual properties such as the Alex Haley estate, which included the assets Roots: The Saga of an American Family and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Another deal yielded the rights to America's Dumbest Criminals television series. Palumbo also owns whole or partial rights to a number of musical properties -- for instance, the Johnny Cash number Home of the Blues.

Palumbo's company, Theatre of the Mind Productions, presents one-day seminars on many sales-related topics. Palumbo is also the author of the book What's Your Sales DNA?

References

  1. Calder Gazette: Jan 19, 2004-John Palumbo, The Magic Man
  2. The 'Investment Gambler' - The Morning Show News Story - WJXT Jacksonville
  3. "America's Dumbest Criminals" website, accessed April 4, 2007 http://www.americasdumbestcriminals.com/about.html
  4. http://s.wsj.net/article/SB121198785761226199.html Wall Street Journal Digital Network website, accessed June 17, 2008
  5. Chapter 7 Assets website: John Palumbo

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