Wishna grew up in New York City and launched his first entrepreneurial venture at 8 years of age, going door-to-door in his neighborhood, fixing broken televisions and radios for five dollars. At the age of 13, Wishna taught himself photography to land a position as photographer at Brooklyn Today newspaper. When Wishna was only 17, a chance meeting with
Steve Rubell led to Wishna becoming the photographer at
Studio 54 when
Steve Rubell and
Ian Schrager opened the nightclub in New York City. Wishna photographed
Andy Warhol,
Halston,
Liza Minnelli,
Burt Reynolds and
Bianca Jagger. By the age of 19, Wishna opened his own commercial and celebrity photography studio in NYC, where he photographed celebrities like
John Travolta,
Peter Frampton and
Frank Sinatra for the pages of
Time Magazine and
Newsweek Magazine. At 21 years of age, Wishna founded Globalforce International, an executive search consulting firm. Clients consisted of Fortune 500 manufacturing and service companies, including
Bristol-Meyers,
JP Morgan and
Chase Manhattan Bank. In 1999 Wishna founded CPAmerica Inc., a consulting firm specializing in mergers, acquisitions, and special entertainment projects for the gaming, lodging and leisure industry. He opened offices in
Florida, New York City and Las Vegas. ==Death==