Tony Tortorici
Partner, Sweetwater Capital Corporation
678-697-3069
Tony Tortorici is a nationally recognized, award-winning public relations and marketing executive and currently serves as Partner for public relations and marketing for Sweetwater Capital Corporation.
He was founder and CEO of Tortorici & Randolph Public Relations (TortoriciPR.com) and previously served as Sr. Executive Vice President of Ogilvy & Mather PR Worldwide; Vice President, Public Relations with Coca-Cola North America; and, before that, as Vice President Public Relations with KFC/Heublein; Vice President of Public Relations with Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. and Cleveland Bureau Chief of the General Electric News Bureau. He began his career as a correspondent with United Press International followed by on-camera reporting and newswriting for WEWS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio.
A founding member of the National Investor Relations Institute and American Charities Today, Inc., Tortorici went on to win the Silver Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of America for his work with Coca-Cola's sponsorship of the Olympic Games; the Best in State MAX Award for Marketing Excellence from·the Georgia State University Marketing Roundtable for his work with Chick-fit-A, and Marketing Agency of the Year for his work with Newell Rubbermaid.