Lori Greiner is a star Shark on the five-time Emmy® Award-winning and
11-time Critics’ Choice Award-winning show, “Shark Tank,”
ABC’s hit entrepreneurial business show where she invests in
companies and helps turn people’s dreams into a reality.

As one of the most prolific inventors of retail products, Greiner
started with one idea and turned it into a multimillion-dollar
international brand. She has created and marketed over 1,000
successful products and holds 120 U.S. and international patents. Her
accomplishments come from her sharp instincts and strong business
sense. Well known for telling instantly if a product is a “hero or a
zero,” she has a 90% success rate on new items launched. Greiner is
hands-on in all facets of taking a product from concept to creation to
market within months in lightning speed. She oversees the legal and
patent processes, and has driven her business to the success it has
achieved. Greiner’s also renowned for her impeccable negotiating
skills and her uncanny ability to know and identify emerging brands
and people and invest in them. She has helped many budding
entrepreneurs turn their ideas into hit products and has 10 of the Top
20 most successful companies on “Shark Tank” to date.

A strong role model and true inspiration to so many, Greiner was
honored with the Sherry Lansing Woman of the Year Award and by the
Paley Center as an Important Woman in Television, listed as one of
Success Magazine’s Top 25 Personal and Professional Development
Influencers to Follow, ranked by Business Insider Magazine as one of
the Top 30 Best Women Early-Stage Investors of 2023, and voted as a
fan favorite on “Shark Tank.”

Greiner is known for creating a diversity of products that help make
people’s lives easier, whether it be must-have clever and unique
organizers for the home, kitchen gadgets, tech and travel solutions or
the most popular jewelry and cosmetic organizers of all time. Her
products are enjoyed by men and women alike.

A great believer that, “if you are lucky enough to be successful,
you have a responsibility to give back,” Greiner enjoys giving back
to the community is known as a kindhearted humanitarian. She and her
company annually donate a substantial amount of their profits to a
diverse variety of charities. From sponsoring full-ride four-year
scholarships to colleges for underprivileged women, programs to uplift
and encourage youth, or supporting first responders and health-care
workers and everyday heroes to name a few, many of her most gratifying
moments have come when she has been able to help budding entrepreneurs
achieve the same success she feels lucky enough to have enjoyed.

Greiner, in her effort to “pay it forward,” wrote her first book,
“Invent It, Sell It, Bank It” (Random House, 2014). A national
bestseller, it was named one of the Top 10 business books by
Amazon.com and made Wall Street Journal’s top business books of
2014. Illustrating how to take an idea from concept to prototype,
market research to manufacturing, patents and trademarks, retail and
TV sales, funding and more, “Invent It, Sell It, Bank It” is a
hands-on, nuts-and-bolts guide on how to turn an idea into a
million-dollar reality.

Follow Greiner on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, and on her own
website, www.lorigreiner.com.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN: Chicago, Illinois
BIRTHDATE: December 9
