|
Home >
About Us
>
President and CEO
Joseph M.
Torsella served as President and CEO of the National Constitution Center from 1997 through December 2003 and
was the driving force behind its concept, construction, and opening as a new
tourism anchor on Independence Mall. He returned in June 2006 to further
secure and advance the museum’s place as one of America’s most
vital and dynamic institutions.
In 2004,
Torsella founded 743 Ventures LLC, a private equity and strategic consulting
firm. He also serves as volunteer
board Co-Chair of Philadelphia 2016, the bi-partisan regional group that is
leading the effort to bring the Olympics to Philadelphia.
Torsella
ran for a seat in the United States Congress in
2004.
From
January 1992 until September 1993, Torsella served as Deputy Mayor for Policy
and Planning of the City of Philadelphia under then Mayor (now Governor of
Pennsylvania) Edward G. Rendell.
Believed to be the youngest Deputy Mayor in the City’s history, Torsella
headed the Policy Unit of the Mayor's Office. The office helped formulate many of the
initiatives that led the City’s nationally-acclaimed financial recovery, hailed
by the New York Times as “the most
stunning turnaround” in American municipal history.
Torsella
graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an honors degree in economics and history from the
University of
Pennsylvania. As a Rhodes Scholar, he did graduate
work in American history at New
College, Oxford.
Torsella has written widely on historical and contemporary issues,
including published work in the New York
Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer,
the Pennsylvania Magazine of History
and Biography, the Miami Herald,
and the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Torsella
is active in community and public affairs.
He is a director of Admiral Merchants Motor Freight and a trustee of
several non-profits, including Young Scholars Charter School, Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts,
and Historic Philadelphia, Inc. His
wife, Carolyn Short Torsella, is a partner at the ReedSmith law firm. They live with their four children in
Flourtown, Pennsylvania.
Related Links:
ceo@constitutioncenter.org
|
