Roth was born in the northern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois and attended Deerfield High School. Her father Bernie is a retired union electrician. Her parents divorced while she was in high school and her mother Sheri died from leukemia in 1998, as did her step-mother from lung cancer in 2004.
As a self-styled "recovering" investment banker, she has completed more than $2 billion in capital raising, mergers & acquisitions and related transactions and invests in private companies. She attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated magna cum laude in 1995.
She was the host of World's Greatest Newspaper Radio"s The Noon Show, and author of the New York Times bestseller book, The Entrepreneur Equation. Roth appears weekly on national cable television networks including Fox Business, Consumer News and Business Channel, Cable News Network, Fox News and Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company. Roth is an advocate for entrepreneurship and small business. She was named a Top 100 Small Business Influencer by Small Biz Trends in 2011 and again in 2012.
A number of her television segments and writings are related to small business and she was the event moderator for the New York Times Small Business Summit in 2012.
Investment banking She became an officer of the firm by age 25. Radio Roth hosted "The Noon Show on World's Greatest Newspaper Radio from January to June 2013.
Previously, she co-hosted episodes of American Entrepreneur Radio with Suzanne Caplan, focused on entrepreneurship and business. Columns and articles Roth has written for a number of online publications, including a featured blog called "Make Your Pitch" at The New York Times and a blog at the Huffington Post where she covers Business, Political, and Women"s Issue postings.
In 2011, Roth authored Sober Entrepreneurship, a manifesto which was published through Change This.
She wrote an article for Consumer News and Business Channel.com proposing the legalization of insider trading.
Roth joined San Francisco based investment bank Montgomery Securities in 1995 as a financial analyst and member of the consumer corporate finance team
