Bob Natiello
- Joined: Nov 18, 2012
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Wharton Class Ambassador Bob Natiello spends his Arizona retirement writing award-winning fiction and nonfiction while raising money for charitable causes. As president of Sedona Jazz on the Rocks, the Southwest’s oldest and largest jazz fest, he has helped provide jazz educational scholarships to hundreds of young Arizonians. His current collection of short stories is being published under the title The Almost Perfect Crime and Other Award-Winning Stories of New York. Four of the pieces are national Pushcart Prize nominees. Another earned first prize in Manhattan Media’s 2009 fiction contest. It appeared in New York Press, West Side Spirit and Our Town. His song lyrics have been heard nationwide on a gold single and a gold album (Polydor label), and on TV and radio commercials. His fiction writing earned him three successive invitations to Sirenland Writers Conferences: 2009, 2010 and 2011 in Positano, Italy. During his career as a BBDO vice president, Bob headed the agency marketing team that won an EFFIE for effective marketing of GE appliances. He originated and produced the first weekly real estate television series—Home Buying Made Easy—on a major NYC television channel. He also originated and produced New York’s first mutual fund weekly radio series—All About Mutual Funds