Pamela Day (born in Colts Neck, NJ) currently resides in Los Angeles, California is the Managing Partner of Crimson Fund Advisors, a real estate investment firm which she co-founded in 2002. Day is best known for her performance as a participant in NBC’s The Apprentice 2 which aired in 2004.
Education
Day graduated from St. John Vianney High School in Holmdel Township, New Jersey in 1989 and went on to earn a bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 and a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997. She holds SEC Series 63 and 7 licenses and is a licensed California real estate broker.
Professional Career
After graduating from HBS in 1997, Day worked as an associate at Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate services & money management firm. In 1998, she entered the dot com economy as Vice President of Corporate Finance at AllAdvantage.com. In 1999, Day founded Blazent, a computer software company which she sold to Cohesiant in 2001. She remained as EVP and Chairman until 2002. Later that year, she co-founded Crimson Holdings LLC, a company dealing in real estate investments and private equity placement.
Family
Day married David Vernon on September 4, 1999 in New York City. Vernon was a classmate at U Penn and a year behind Pamela at HBS. They spent their honeymoon at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. In 2004, the couple divorced. At the time, Day stated that her participation in the show did not contribute to the split.
Performance
On the show, Pamela was portrayed as a tough, no-nonsense businesswoman. Her initial successes convinced Trump to transfer her to the competitors team in order to help them finally win. Ironically, in this episode, Day was terminated. The reason Trump fired Day was for her poor judgment of people despite the fact that her team lost by less than ten dollars. After leaving the Apprentice, Day worked to distance herself from the show, thinking herself to be better than the other participants.
External links
Profile on NBC.com
Pamela Day's official website
Company Website
Personal Website
Bio at Foxreality.com
Interview at FastCompany
List of Habits
Notice of marriage in U Penn alumni mazagine
Article on Divorce in People
Sandy Ferreira
Sandy Ferreira is a bridal salon owner from Rockville, Maryland. She was 28 years old when The Apprentice 2 aired.
Ferreira started her salon at the age of 21, becoming the youngest bridal salon owner in the country. She is also a wedding and event planner, as well as investing in real estate.
Ferreira's parents are immigrants from Portugal.
Performance
Ferreira won twice as Project Manager and had an important role in one of Kelly's victories: the task involved managing a bridal store. She surprised the other candidates for getting so far in the competition, since she didn't have a college degree. Ferreira was one of the final four applicants, but was fired for not impressing the interviewers.
External links
Profile on NBC.com
Sandy Ferreira's official website
Distinctive Designs Bridal
Rob Flanagan
Rob Flanagan, 32 years old on The Apprentice 2, came from Frisco, Texas. He is married and has two children.
Flanagan grew up in Plano, Texas. He earned an American football scholarship to Truman State University (formerly Northeast Missouri State University), and started at the linebacker position for four years. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin, he and his wife founded Flanagan Enterprises, Inc. They turned Flanagan Enterprises into a multi-million dollar company, selling corporate-branded items and custom solution packaging products worldwide.
In November 2003, Rob partnered with HotLink, Inc., based in Austin, Texas and is now Vice President of Dallas Texas Sales.
Performance
Flanagan's teammates accused him of not contributing enough during their first task, and he attempted to place the blame on his teammates for not utilizing him well enough. Donald Trump decided it was his fault for not taking the initiative, making Flanagan the first candidate fired from The Apprentice 2.
Flanagan was able to return in Week 9 to work with Mosaic. Trump thought he was a good worker, even though he was the first fired.
External links
Profile on NBC.com
Rob Flanagan's official website
Realty TV World - Rob Flanagan
Rob Flanagan on BuddyTV
Elizabeth Jarosz
Elizabeth Jarosz was a candidate on the second season of The Apprentice. Jarosz was 31 at the time the program aired. She hails from Marina Del Rey, California and owns a consulting firm. Jarosz attended Divine Child Elementary School and Divine Child High School in Dearborn, Michigan, and went on to graduate from the University of Michigan Business School with a 4.0 grade point average. She previously worked at Procter & Gamble, which coincidentally was a sponsor of one of the tasks. Jarosz wrote, produced, directed, and edited the 2000 film Trick... or Treat?, which won the Best Short Drama award at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.
Performance
Jarosz was fired week 8 for being an indecisive leader. In an unprecedented move, Trump didn't even wait for her to bring two people back with her for the second round of the board room, since Trump felt that he already had enough evidence to rule her out of the competition. She was eventually brought back in the final two weeks to work for the finalists, where she was the first of all the candidates selected by Kelly. After the tasks, Mr. Trump complimented her for her hard work.
Filmography
Traffic (2000) as High School Student
Rock n' Roll Cops (2002) as Detective Elizabeth White
Pandemonium (2002) as Taron
King's Highway (2002) as Mrs. Kemer
Mind Games (2003) as Elizabeth Greene
External links
Profile on NBC.com
Elizabeth Jarosz's official website
PEOM Interview With Elizebth Jarosz
Stacie Jones Upchurch
Stacie Jones Upchurch, age 35 on The Apprentice 2, came from New York City. She has a BA from Emory University and an MBA from Mercer University.
Jones Upchurch grew up in Colorado. She is a professional model with Ford Models and Elite Model Management. She also owns a Subway Sandwich Shop in Harlem, New York.
Performance
Jones Upchurch disturbed many of her teammates in their first task by repeatedly referring to a Magic 8-ball while awaiting the outcome of the task. This was the first impression she made with her teammates and it eventually led to her termination. At the end of the third task, her teammates still remembered her "schizophrenic"-like episode, and brought it up in the boardroom. Concerned about the issue, Trump ordered all team members back into the boardroom to discuss it. After hearing each woman confirm Jones Upchurch's behavior, Trump decided to make her the third candidate fired from The Apprentice 2. His reasoning was that he did not want someone causing the rest of the candidates upset or nervousness.
Jones Upchurch was invited back to the program for the 9th installment. Trump brought back his first four firings to help with that week's task. In the boardroom, he acknowledged Jones Upchurch for her "hard work."
External links
Profile on NBC.com
Stacie Jones Upchurch's official website
Reality TV World - Stacie Jones Upchurch
Stacie Jones Upchurch is "brushed" off as third boot from 'The Apprentice 2'
Andy Litinsky
Andy Litinsky was a candidate on the second season of The Apprentice. He was 23 when the program aired. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 2004. He comes from Boca Raton, Florida and is a graduate of Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1999, Litinsky won the U.S. National Debate Championship in Commentary Speaking. He now is an executive producer along with Trump on the MTV show "Pageant Place."
Performance
Litinsky was described as having "nine lives" by another contestant for his ability to face Trump in the boardroom and emerge unscathed. When given a chance to lead, he helped Mosaic create an effective, emotionally-based advertising campaign for the New York Police Department in week 8.
External links
Andy Litinksy's official website
Profile on NBC.com
Ivana Ma
Ivana Ma is a venture capitalist from Boston, Massachusetts. She was age 28 when The Apprentice 2 aired. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Brian, who attended Harvard Business School. Ma attended the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia, and later earned her B.S. from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia with a concentration in Finance.
Ma shares her first name with Donald Trump's former wife, Ivana, a coincidence Mr. Trump often poked fun at.
Performance
Ivana proved herself to be a tireless worker in the game despite her penchant for finishing the majority of tasks on the losing side. Ivana's record as Project Manager, though, was extremely shoddy: 0 wins for 2 losses. During the M&M's M-Azing Candy Bar challenge, Ivana failed to bring her team under control and behaved rather unprofessionally in the street (specifically, she offered to pull down her skirt for whoever paid for the chocolate she was selling--and her team still lost). In spite of Kevin's low-pricing strategy, Ivana was fired.
External links
Profile on NBC.com
Ivana Ma's official website
Reality TV World - Ivana Ma
Ivana Ma on BuddyTV
Jennifer Massey
Jennifer Massey (Born Jennifer Jarratt) was a candidate on the second season of The Apprentice. She was 30 at the time the program aired. She is an attorney from San Francisco, California. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with an undergraduate degree in English. She earned her law degree at Harvard University. Massey is an associate at the law firm of Clifford Chance. Massey's husband is named Aron.
Performance
In Weeks 12 and 14, Massey got into a verbal fight with Ferreira. While Massey made it to the finals, she was not well liked, and was perceived as being abrasive. Her winning record was not as strong as Perdew's and was perhaps the largest single factor in Trump's decision not to hire her. Additional criticism of her revolved around the fact that Jennifer was often able to hide her personal shortcomings in a task behind the errors of others on her team.
External links
Profile on NBC.com
Wes Moss
Wes Moss, post-Apprentice.
Wes Moss of Atlanta, Georgia was 28 years old at the time The Apprentice 2 aired. He is a vice president at a major investment firm and manages money for wealthy individuals and companies. He also teaches classes at Emory University's Center for Life Long Learning Emory University.
Since age 15, when he started both a landscaping company and summer camp for Pennsylvania's rural children, he has been involved with business and entrepreneurship.
Moss holds a degree in economics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Life After the Apprentice
Since his journey to New York Wes went back to Atlanta, wrote a book called ""Starting from Scratch"", is an active speaker on the subject of business and entrepreneurship, and continues to grow his wealth management practice. Moss authored Starting from Scratch - Secrets from 21 ordinary people who made the entrepreneurial leap for Kaplan Publishing. He tours as a speaker.
External links
Official website
Profile on NBC.com
more info on Wes
Wes as a speaker
Kelly Perdew
Main article: Kelly Perdew
Kelly Perdew, who was 37 years old and he hails from Carlsbad, California is a Military Intelligence Officer.
Stacy Rotner
Stacy Rotner, of New York City, New York, is an attorney. She was 26 at the time of the show.
Accomplishments
Rotner has a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University, where she graduated with honors. Stacy received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, and she currently practices corporate law at a top law firm in New York.
She has also practiced intellectual property law dealing with issues that include copyright, trademark, entertainment law and art law. In addition, Rotner has significant public speaking experience.
Rotner has worked at the legal departments of Sotheby's auction house and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
She speaks French, having studied abroad in Paris. She is an "avid art lover".
Performance
As of the first episode of the series, Rotner had little presence. She appeared to many to be trying to "fly under the radar" for a while, a trick that often either works on reality shows, or completely falls apart.
Rotner mostly argued with the project managers in the tasks. This led her to being picked to go to the board room several times. She was shown constantly arguing with Jen C., Pamela, and Wes. She was fired for not taking responsibility in the failure of the tasks and placing all the blame on the project manager. Rotner later returned in the final two weeks of the show to work as an employee for Jennifer M.
Oregon newspaper The Trades noted Rotner has a habit of rolling her eyes a little too regularly.
External links
Profile on NBC.com
Chris Russo
Chris Russo is a stockbroker from Long Island, New York. He works for Worldwide Wealth Management in Westbury, New York. He was 30 years old when The Apprentice 2 aired.
Business experience
Russo got his start in business at an early age. He launched a candy business at the age of 11 and had a landscaping business by the time he was 14. He also sold flowers and Christmas trees. Russo has also worked as a paperboy and in the restaurant business.
Russo opened his own firm after being a stockbroker for seven years. He ranked 13th out of over 1,000 brokers after only five months.
Performance
Russo found himself in hot water during week 9. In the boardroom, he complained that his team's "chemistry was horrible" and that if it was composed of the same people the following week, they would surely lose. This outburst was seen as disloyal by Carolyn who chastised him by saying she didn't want to hear about his team's futility. "Don't tell us about it. Fix it!" Trump then named Russo Project Manager for the following week. Early in the task for week 10, he threw up his arms and declared it "impossible". Russo subsequently led his team to the most humiliating defeat in the history of the program. In the boardroom, Trump mentioned how much he liked his accent, saying it made him comfortable and reminded him of his boyhood. Then he fired him.
Trivia
Russo does not have any formal education beyond high school.
Russo speaks with a heavy Long Island accent.
External links
Profile on NBC.com
Chris Russo's official website
John Willenborg
John Willenborg is a marketing director from San Francisco, California. He was 24 years old when The Apprentice 2 aired.
Willenborg graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. In college, he won three Division I national titles in rugby union. Since his firing, Willenborg has been hired by Fox Cable Group's SPEED Channel to become a reporter for their new series, NASCAR Nation. Ironically, while in college, Willenborg had been an intern at Speed.
Performance
In one of the episodes, the teams were supposed to get great reviews for their restaurant. When a group of four supposedly homosexual men entered his team's restaurant, Chris Russo told John to use his sexuality to get the necessary positive reviews. The gay men were criticising about how awful the food was. Then, Raj suggested the John, being the best looking of the group, go out, bend over, and tie his shoes in front of the group of gay men. John did not go with Raj's suggestion but he did deliver the food to the table and turned on some charm to butter-up the gay customers. Trump gave the strategy a positive comment, comparing it with women using their looks to get what they want.
However, John was fired at the end of episode 6 when he made too many bad decisions when he became the project manager.
External links
Profile on NBC.com
John Willenborg's official website
References
^ Blazent
^ Crimson Holdings LLC
^ "The Apprentice"'s Pamela Day Getting Divorced - Movie Discussion Forum & Message Board
^ Fast Talk: What I Learned on The Apprentice
^ Echo Online :: News :: Would-be "Apprentice" inspires
^ Amazon.com: Starting From Scratch: Secrets from 21 Ordinary People Who Made the Entrepreneurial Leap: Books: Wes Moss
^ Wes Moss
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Kevin Allen is a law student at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. He was 29 years old when The Apprentice 2 aired.
Allen grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. He attended the Wharton School of Business. He was on his way to a career as a professional football player, but gave up this aspiration when his brother was diagnosed with leukemia. Allen later went on to earn an MBA in mergers and acquisitions and finance from Emory University. He has founded a software company with his brother.
