Lori Greiner is a star Shark on the 4x Emmy Award winning and 6x Critic’s Choice Award winning show, "Shark Tank." "Shark Tank" is a hit entrepreneurial business show, on ABC, where she invests in companies and helps turn people’s dreams into a reality. She 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.

She’s also well known 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.

Well known as one of the most prolific inventors of retail products of our time, Greiner started with one idea and turned it into a multi-million dollar international brand. She has created & marketed over 800 successful products and holds 120 US and International patents. She 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. Greiner’s products are enjoyed by men and women alike.

Greiner is also well known for giving back to the community. She and her company annually donate a substantial amount of their profits to a diverse variety of charities. From sponsoring full ride 4 year scholarships to college for underprivileged women, programs to uplift and encourage our 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.

A strong role model and true inspiration to so many, she was honored with the Sherry Lansing ‘Woman of the Year’ Award and by the Paley Center as an Important Woman in Television.

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