Marc Schiller

Marc Schiller
Born	August 1957 (age 59) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation	accountant, author

Marc Schiller is an Argentinian American man who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1957. He survived a kidnapping and attempted murder by the Sun Gym Gang in Miami, Florida in 1994. He was the star witness in the trial against Daniel Lugo, Adrian Doorbal, and Jorge Delgado on a number of charges ranging from murder to kidnapping to extortion. Schiller has published two books Pain and Gain: The Untold True Story and Pain and Gain: How I Survived and Triumphed. These books are personal accounts of his kidnapping in 1994. In 2013 the film Pain & Gain which depicts Schiller's kidnapping, was released by Paramount Pictures.

Schiller was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and with his parents immigrated to the United States when he was seven years old. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. By the age of nine he started several small businesses to fund his educational and personal needs. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, participating in sports and was member of the school's track team. He remained in Brooklyn until he moved to Milwaukee to attend the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Schiller has had a successful career as an entrepreneur and as a professional working for several large companies occupying several positions as an accountant, controller, CFO and auditor with such companies as Ernst and Whinney and Enserch. His professional career has spanned the United States as well as internationally for US based companies in Colombia and Ecuador. On an entrepreneurial level, Schiller has launched several slightly successful businesses including accounting practices both in Miami and Houston, a delicatessen in Miami, a vending machine company and two options and stock trading companies. Schiller received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in accounting and a MBA in finance from Benedictine University.

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