Troy Dunn is an American television personality, businessman, and public speaker. In 18 years, Dunn has assisted more than 40,000 people to find long-lost relatives or loved ones, including helping his own mother, Katie Dunn, to find her birth mother. This was the impetus for the business he founded that specializes in helping people to find and reunite with people from their past. In 2002 Dunn sold the business to Ancestry.com.[1]
Dunn is currently a consultant to corporate clients, motivating management teams regarding leadership issues such as overcoming obstacles and team building, as well as "major media manipulation, strategy, and results". He is the host of WE tv's reality series The Locator.[2]
Dunn and his wife, the former Jennifer Farrell, have seven children and are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dunn attended Pittsburgh State University.