Kate Bohner Biography

Kate Bohner (born April 14, 1967, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American journalist and writer.

Career

After studying business and international studies at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1988, Bohner began her career in the mergers and acquisitions department at investment bank Lazard. After she left Lazard, she attended the Columbia University School of Journalism, where she received a Reader's Digest Literary Foundation Fellowship Award, graduating in 1992 with a Master of Science degree in journalism.

Upon graduating from the Columbia Journalism School she joined Forbes magazine as a fact checker. After 13 months she was promoted to writer. Her work appeared in the Small Business, Healthcare, Careers, investigative, and other sections of the magazine. She was then asked to reinvent the column "The Informer," rising to Associate Editor. During her time at Forbes, she was an on-air contributor to CNN and to E! Entertainment Network. She has also written for publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, and George Magazine.

She co-authored Donald Trump's 1997 book Trump: Art of the Comeback. The book hit both the New York Times (#3) and the Wall Street Journal's (#1) Bestseller's Lists.

That same year she became a correspondent for CNBC, launching "Business Center", with Maria Bartiromo and Tyler Mathison. She went on to write and broadcast "Kate Bohner's Power File" on CNBC's Power Lunch. In 1998, Jack Reilly, the former executive producer at CNBC joined her and other NBC veterans in founding a startup, Internet news service, JAGfn, providing online content similar to that found on CNBC.

In 2000, she was the Managing Editor of Digital Financial Media for E*Trade's start-up financial-news effort, a six-day per week webcast from New York City"?the show also aired on Sundays on WNEW 102.7 FM.

In 2006, Bohner launched "Kate's Take" on her own YouTube channel KBTVonline. This was a four-minute daily videoblog based and shot in South Florida. The show covered a wide range of information from top news stories to quirky pop culture, finance, politics, healthcare and style. On Christmas Day of 2007, KBTVonline's video hit #1 in 19 countries. Bohner left South Florida for Los Angeles in 2008 and"?while she was there"?she was honored for her work in raising awareness about VVF in Nigeria while following Physicians for Peace through video and internet content, receiving the 2008 President's Award for Special Achievement.

Today, Bohner is the Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Communications at the World Trade Financial Group.

Personal life

She was briefly married to author Michael Lewis, known for his bestselling books Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, The Blind Side, and Moneyball. In November 2008, Bohner traveled to Thailand to live in a monastery and ordained as a Buddhist nun.

She was the mistress of Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt from 2007 to 2010.

Bohner lives in New York City and is single.