Pilzer completed Lehigh University
in three years and received his MBA from Wharton in 15 months at age
22. He became Citibank's youngest officer at age 22 and its youngest vice
president at age 25. At age 24, he was appointed adjunct professor at New
York University,
where he taught for 21 consecutive years. Over the past 30 years, Pilzer has
started and/or taken public, five companies in the areas of software, education
and healthcare. He is the Founder of Zane Benefits, Inc. and Extend Health,
Inc., the nation's two leading suppliers of individualized health benefits to
corporate America
including Wal-Mart's Sam's Club.
He was an appointed economic adviser in two presidential administrations and
warned of the impending $200 billion savings and loan crisis years before
official Washington was willing
to listen—a story that he later shared in Other People's Money (Simon
& Schuster) which was critically acclaimed by The New York Times
and The Economist magazine.
Pilzer's Unlimited Wealth (Crown) explains how we live in a
world of unlimited physical resources because of rapidly advancing technology.
After reading Unlimited Wealth, the late Sam Walton, founder of
Wal-Mart, said that he was “amazed at Pilzer's business capacity” and his
“ability to put it into layman's terms.”
Pilzer's God Wants You to be Rich: The Theology of Economics (Simon
& Schuster) explains how the foundation of our economic system is based
on our Judeo-Christian heritage—this New York Times business
best-seller was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal
and on television shows ranging from 60 Minutes to First Person
with Maria Shriver.
In The New Wellness Revolution (Wiley) Pilzer identifies the
newly emerging wellness business—for this book he received an Honorary
Doctorate in Public Service and was called a “wellness guru” by The
New York Times.
The Next Millionaires (Momentum Media) explains why
the number of U.S.
millionaires doubled in the 1990s, how the economy is now creating one million
millionaires a year from 2006-2016, and how ordinary people can become one of
them.
The New Health Insurance Solution (Wiley) sets forth a bold
new direction for U.S.
health insurance and explains how individuals can now get affordable health
insurance independent of their employer. This book also explains how employers
can end their health insurance nightmare while still being able to hire great
employees by providing the same health benefits for less than half the cost
they are paying today.
A former commentator on National Public Radio and CNN, Pilzer was profiled
on the front page of The Wall St. Journal in 2007 and has appeared
three times on the Larry King Live! television program. He speaks live each
year to approximately 200,000 people, and more than 10 million audiotapes of
his speeches have been sold. He lives in Utah
with his wife and four children where they are all avid snowboarders, mountain
bikers, and chess players.