Personal

Born in June 1, 1964, Deirdre Bolton grew up in the Newtown area of Pennsylvania, United States. She studied at the University of Iowa and received graduate degrees both in French and English Literature. She also did her Master’s in French literature through New York University in Paris. She is married and lives with her husband and two sons in Upper West Side.

Profession

Bolton worked in the equity sales sector of two international banks, selling European equities to portfolio managers in the United States. She started working for Bloomberg Television in the year 1999.  She also reports news for all the affiliates of Bloomberg news in cities like Chicago, Raleigh, Pittsburg, Salt Lake, New York, and San Antonio. She has reported from the New York Stock Exchange, and has been recognized for her excellent field work. She has also anchored programs of diverse nature. Her show ‘Money Moves’ focuses on the alternative investment trends that are sourced from professionals who excel in private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, and angel investing.

Assignments

During her career in Bloomberg, Bolton has interviewed many high profile personalities, business leaders, investors, and heads of state including Carlyle Group managing director and co-founder, David Rubenstein, managing partner of Union Square Ventures, Fred Wilson, Wilbur Ross, the billionaire investor, Chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell, H. Rodgin Cohen, Gary Parr, the Vice Chairman at Lazard and Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management CEO.

She also appeared on CBS and ABC during the credit crisis of 2007-2008. She was a regular contributor at The Early Show in CBS and on News Now channel of ABC. She has recently interviewed sports personalities, government officials, wall street players, and key decision makers like Richard Clarida, the strategic adviser of PIMCO, Sam Zell, Rick Simonson, the CFO of Nokia, chief economist in President Barack Obama’s administration, Christina Romer, Terrell Owens, Martina Navratilova, and Billie Jean King.

Bolton provides a daily update on the global money flows in alternative assets like private equity, hedge fund etc and also gives information regarding the bets placed by global investors that deviate from traditional investing methods. She has also actively participated in gatherings of top business leaders in the world like the World Knowledge Forum, which was held in Seoul, Korea.