Carmine Gallo (b. July 26, 1965) is an American author, columnist,
keynote speaker
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, and former journalist and
news anchor
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Based in Pleasanton, California
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, he is President of Gallo Communications Group and works as a communication coach and speaker. Carmine is also a contributor for Forbes.com
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, where he writes for the ''Leadership Channel''. He is regarded as an expert in his field in business communication and leadership skills.[Expert Speaker Series, ''Stanford School of Business''](_blank)
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'', ''The New York Times
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'', ''Success'' Magazine, ''Bloomberg Businessweek
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'' and on CNBC
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. Gallo has also given lectures to MBA students at Stanford
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, UCLA
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, and UC Berkeley
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.
Personal life
Carmine Gallo was born in San Jose, California
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, the son of Francesco Gallo, an Italian immigrant who was held in a British concentration camp until the end of World War II. After returning to Italy, Franco married Giuseppina Gugliemo, his childhood sweetheart. In 1956, they moved to America where Franco worked as an engineer for Palo Alto
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The city was estab ...
-based Varian Associates
Varian Associates was one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1948 by Russell H. and Sigurd F. Varian, William Webster Hansen, and Edward Ginzton to sell the klystron, the first vacuum tube which could amplify ...
for more than thirty years.
In 1983, Carmine graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory
Bellarmine College Preparatory is an all-male, Jesuit, private secondary school located in San Jose, California. Founded in 1851, it is the oldest secondary school in California and the second-oldest west of the Mississippi River. In 2020, Niche ...
, in San Jose, CA. He went on to attend the University of California Los Angeles
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where he majored in Political Science
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. He graduated ''cum laude'' in 1988 with a BA degree. He then received his MS in Broadcast Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism
The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is a constituent school of Northwestern University that offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. It frequently ranks as the top school of journalism in the Unite ...
at Northwestern University in 1989.
Career
Broadcaster and Columnist
In 1996, Gallo was hired as a correspondent for CNNfn
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in New York City, a network dedicated to covering financial markets and business news. In 1998, he accepted a hosting position at The Money Machine
''The Money Machine'' was a show on ZDTV, and later TechTV, hosted by Carmine Gallo. The show offered investment advice to viewers, predominantly on how to begin investing via the internet
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, a daily half-hour program on the San Francisco-based network ''ZDTV'', later renamed Tech TV
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He left Tech TV in 2001 to begin building his own media training practice, but continued to work as a journalist. In 2003 he was hired by CBS 2 (KCAL 9) Los Angeles to cover the Arnold Schwarzenegger administration and news events in northern California.
In 2005 he became Vice President of Media Relations at Ketchum Inc.
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, a San Francisco public relations and marketing company. In 2009, he left Ketchum to focus on his consulting practice. At this time, he began writing his first book and started speaking to corporations about business communications.
From 2008 to 2011 he hosted ''The Useful Commute'', a podcast that featured current management and marketing topics on BNET, an on-line news magazine that was a unit of CBS interactive.
In 2010, Gallo became a regular contributor for Forbes.com. His column, "Your Communications Coach," is focused on articles and videos about success, leadership and communications. Carmine also contributes articles to Entrepreneur.com and is a Thought Leader on Monster.com.
Speaker and Media Trainer
In 2004 he formed Gallo Communications Group in Pleasanton, CA with his wife, Vanessa Gallo.
In 2010, Gallo Communications Group went into partnership with eVision-Design, Inc. a San Francisco-based e-learning developer to begin the Carmine Gallo Academy, LLC., an e-learning company where customers can take on-line, interactive courses on business communications. The first course, ''The New Rules of Persuasive Presentations: Sell Your Ideas the Steve Jobs Way'', was released to the public in the summer of 2012 and is based on Gallo's book, ''The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs.''
Author
His best-known books are those about the late, Apple, Inc. co-founder, Steve Jobs
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. The first book in the series, ''The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs'' became a ''Wall Street Journal'' bestseller and, according to WorldCat, is held in 917 libraries The book has been translated into more than 20 languages.
The second, ''The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs'', also became an international bestselling book and was awarded the Axiom Award for being one of the top three best business books of 2011. The third book, Gallo's most recent, is ''The Apple Experience'', It was published in April 2012, a few months after Steve's death.
He has also published on more general topics. In his first published book, ''10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Business Communicators'', he discussed the speaking techniques used by some well-known business leaders
His second book, ''In Fire Them Up! : 7 Simple Secrets to Inspire Colleagues, Customers, and Clients; Sell Yourself, Your Vision, and Your Values; Communicate with Charisma and Confidence'', gives insights from men and women who ran several major companies.
In his third book, ''The Power of foursquare'', he discusses social media and mobile marketing, for nearly fifty successful brands
Talk like TED is a self-help
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book written to help people develop better presentations by learning from research in effective communications, illustrated with descriptions of top TED
TED may refer to:
Economics and finance
* TED spread between U.S. Treasuries and Eurodollar
Education
* ''Türk Eğitim Derneği'', the Turkish Education Association
** TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Turkey
** Transvaal Education Depa ...
talks.
Bibliography
Books
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*Gallo, Carmine (2018). ''Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great''. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. p. 256.
*Gallo, Carmine (2022). ''The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World's Greatest Salesman''. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. p. 272. ISBN 9781250278333
References
External links
*Official link Carmine Gall
*EVision-Desig
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1965 births
Living people