Personal Life

Ali Velshi is the son of Murad Velshi, best known as someone who is the only Canadian with Indian Origin elected to the Ontario Legislative Assembly and his wife Mila was raised in South Africa. Velshi is graduated in religious studies with a degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1994. During his undergraduate years in Queen’s University, Velshi has covered a lot of news against the Preston Manning and Canada’s Reform Party. In 2010, Queen’s University has awarded Velshi the prestigious Queen’s University Alumni Achievement Award and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by his Alma Mater. In his early days, Velshi attended the Northern Secondary School in Toronto.

Velshi got married in his 20s, however, the marriage was very brief and ended shortly after with a divorce. He married his second wife, Lori Wachs in 2009. Lori Wachs was born in New York and worked as a hedge fund manager. She was also the president of Philadelphia-based Cross Ledge Investments. Velshi met Lori Wachs when she was his guest in his talk show. According to Marriedbiography.com, Velshi and Lori Wachs have three children together. The couple has been married happily for eight years now.

Career

Television

In 1996, Velshi earned a fellowship to pursuit mutual knowledge and practice to the United States Congress from American Political Science Association. In this fellowship, Velshi teamed-up with Lee H. Hamilton – a member of the Democratic Party and a representative of the 9th congressional district of Indiana.

Velshi has been given a lot of opportunities in news career especially in business and financial field. Velshi started as the General Assignment reporter at CFTO. Velshi demonstrated high skills as a news anchor when he was appointed as the General Assignment reporter. All Velshi’s hard work paid off finally when Velshi was promoted as the business reporter for CablePulse 24. In 1999, Velshi joined Report on Business Television, which now being called as BNN – Business News Network. BNN is one of the best and Canada’s popular all-business news channel. Velshi got the opportunity to host The Business News which was the major news program and prime-time business news.

CNN

Velshi moved to the United States in September 2001 to join CNNfn, a business news channel. He anchored Your Money for several years on every Saturday and Sunday. He also anchored other news shows such as Insights, Business Unusual, Street Sweep, and co-hosted The Money Gang with Pat Kiernan before CNNfn closed down in December 2004.

After CNNfn shut down, CNN took Velshi in for the early morning program, Daybreak. In 2005, Velshi hosted a 13-hour long reality television called The Turnaround. In this show, Velshi traveled across America to help small business owners grow business by recommended them high-profile mentors to help them to develop a business plan to succeed.