Don Talley

Don was born and raised in the city of Richmond. he attended Richmond public schools in an era when many of his teachers had also taught his parents. While Pursuing a degree in music from the University of Richmond he financed his education by working at one time or another as a skip tracer, a local musician, a repo man and various jobs in circulation at Richmond newspapers inc.

He parlayed his music background into an introduction to the about to explode hi-fi industry of the early 1970s. He worked for companies such as Alpine, Sony, Marantz, jbl and Nakamichi. Over the next 30 years he worked on a national level selling Circuit City, Best Buy, Sears and other major electronics retailers AROUND the country. When an opportunity to stop traveling five days a week came along in 2000, he eagerly accepted a position at wtvr TV. As a senior account executive, don works with both local and national level businesses and organizations with their marketing strategies.

Don lives by one hard and fast rule…never let a member of the Corleone family sit behind you in a car or rowboat.