Name Bob Sullivan | Role Sully | |
Bob “Sully” Sullivan (born July 6, 1960) is an American television and radio on-air personality, entrepreneur and musician from San Diego, California. He is best known for The Big Biz Show with Sully and Russ T. Nailz, and frequent appearance on FOX Business Network, CNN and MSNBC as a finance advisor and expert.
Early life and career
Sullivan attended Clairemont High School in San Diego and Valhalla High School in El Cajon. He went on to attend UC San Diego as a freshman and graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism. At the age of 27, Sullivan started his own paper, The Weekender, in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. A year later he moved the operation back to San Diego where he continued publishing the paper, whose circulation eventually grew to 40,000 weekly. In 1990, he began his tenure in the finance industry as a venture capital intermediary, raising money for both privately held and publicly traded companies.
In 1995, Sullivan formed Makenna, Delaney & Sullivan, Inc., an Investment Banking Consulting firm, to focus on capital formation and business plan preparation for publicly traded companies. Sullivan helped over 200 companies to access investment capital and gained him early success and eventually became a private day trader for his own accounts. He was called as a guest on a radio program on AM1000 KCEO, and a week later KCEO asked Sullivan if he was interested in his own morning show. Three months later, Cliff Albert, Program Director at News/Talk station AM1130 KSDO, offered Sullivan, his engineer and on-air partner at the time Scot “Scooter” Tempesta, and The Big Ass Biz Show the afternoon drive slot. The show was later renamed The Big Biz Show and Sullivan eventually became known as one of the premier voices on air about choosing individual stocks. Later, The Big Biz Show was named as one the of “Top Ten Financial Radio Talk Shows” by Talkers Magazine.
In 1997, Sullivan moved to AM600 KOGO as a talk host separate from “The Big Biz Show” and continues to broadcast both shows to the present. Sullivan had a major role in rallying the “Recall Filner” campaign in the efforts to oust then-San Diego Mayor Bob Filner in 2013, who had been accused of inappropriate behavior by a number of women. On August 24, 2013, Sullivan hosted a drive-through event to help gather signatures for a recall petition against Filner. The recall became unnecessary when Filner, whom Sullivan had nicknamed “The Emperor”, later resigned his position.[9] His resignation speech occurred as Sullivan was on the air and was aired live during his show on AM600 KOGO.