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World Trade Centers Association (WTCA) General Assembly, Mumbai April 21-24, 2013 {simplepopup} Wake -- Sunday, February 10, 2-5 p.m. EST (14:00-17:00) Becker Funeral Home 219 Kinderkamack Road Westwood, New Jersey
Funeral -- Monday, February 11, 10:15 a.m. EST St. Matthew's Church 555 Prospect Ave. Ridgefield, New Jersey
In lieu of flowers, the Tozzoli family requests donations be sent to the World Trade Centers Association Foundation for the establishment of the Guy F. Tozzoli Scholarship Fund. Please contact Niurka Coteron at the WTCA (ncoteron\@wtca.org tel. +1-212-432-2626). {/simplepopup} Obituary Guy F. Tozzoli, visionary founder and President Emeritus of the World Trade Centers Association, passed away in his sleep February 2, 2013 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, just 10 days short of his 91st birthday. In a lifetime filled with major accomplishments, he developed a large portion of the 1964-65 New York’s World Fair, directed the planning, construction, rental and operation of the New York World Trade Center, launched the World Trade Centers Association, received numerous nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize, and created an innovative system for expediting trade transactions called TradeCard.
Born in North Bergen, New Jersey, he resided for many years in Westwood, New Jersey, before moving to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina after his retirement.. He received a BS degree in analytic mechanics, an MS degree in physics from Fordham University and did graduate work at Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stevens Institute of Technology. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was recalled to duty during the Korean War.
In 1946, he began a four-decade career with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Starting as a junior engineer in the Engineering Department, he advanced steadily to positions of increased responsibility, including construction supervisor, assistant coordinator of engineering, and manager of marine terminal planning and construction, where he was responsible for marine terminal facilities in Brooklyn, Port Newark and Elizabeth, including the new container handling facilities at Elizabeth.
In 1961, the Port Authority accepted a request by the 1964-64 New York World’s Fair Corporation to develop the Transportation Section of the Fair, an 80-acre site that comprised one-quarter of the total Fair grounds. Mr. Tozzoli was responsible for carrying out his work, reporting directly to Fair President Robert Moses.
Later, he originated and directed the development of the PA’s Teleport, a satellite communications center and office park, including a regional fiber optic cable network. He helped found the World Teleport Association, now numbering over 100 members in 20 nations -- and served as its first president. He also conceived and launched the PA’s Legal and Communications Center in Newark, New Jersey.
In 1962, he was appointed Director of the PA’s newly-formed World Trade Department, consisting of the World’s Fair project, the PA’s trade development activities and the World Trade Center, which had just received bi-state enabling legislation. Described by Reader’s Digest as “the largest building project since the pyramids,” the World Trade Center encompassed 16 acres in Lower Manhattan, 15 million square feet of floor area, and seven buildings, including two 110-story towers – the tallest in the world at the time.
Over the years, the pioneering initiatives of Mr. Tozzoli with the New York World Trade Center attracted the attention of other regions worldwide. This led to the creation of the World Trade Centers Association in 1970. Mr. Tozzoli was the principal founder and the first and only WTCA president until his retirement last year. Under his stewardship, the WTCA expanded to include nearly 100 countries around the globe, with some members representing the most powerful trading organizations in their respective countries. During this span, he directed many innovative programs to help make World Trade Centers strong economic development engines in all types of economic and political settings. He was convinced that the best path to peace among nations was to build better global trade networks, and for his accomplishments, he was nominated in successive years to receive the coveted Nobel Peace Prize.
Following the horrific destruction of the New York World Trade Center on 9/11, there was some sentiment for canceling an upcoming WTCA general assembly and even changing the World Trade Center designation. Guy Tozzoli responded promptly and strongly that the assembly would go on as planned, along with the World Trade Center designation everywhere. In the end, there was an outpouring of support for his approach and a redoubling of the commitment of all World Trade Centers to promote not only world trade but international understanding.
Mr. Tozzoli is survived by his wife Cynthia (nee Holmes) Tozzoli, children Susan Tozzoli, Richard Tozzoli, William Tozzoli, Michael Tozzoli, Kathleen Bernaldo and Tom Tozzoli, as well as two grandchildren.
Visitation, Sunday, February 11, 2-5 p.m., at Becker Funeral Home, 219 Kinderkamack Road, Westwood, NJ. Funeral mass, Monday, February 11, 10:15 a.m., at St. Matthew’s Church, 555 Prospect Ave., Ridgefield, NJ.
In lieu of flowers, the Tozzoli family requests donations be sent to the World Trade Centers Association Foundation for the establishment of the Guy F. Tozzoli Scholarship Fund. For information on donating to the Scholarship Fund, please contact Niurka Coteron at the WTCA ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / tel. +1-212-432-2626).
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Dear Members,
It is with great sadness that I inform you that our President Emeritus, Guy Tozzoli, passed away in his sleep on Saturday night.
Guy, whom many of us knew and were very fond of, was a visionary whose foresight and dynamic energy was the mastermind some 40 years ago in creating our Association. He had the most friendly and amiable personality, which made you feel that he had known you forever.
His passing is a great loss to our Association, and we pray for him to rest in peace. We also extend our deepest condolences to his family for their loss.
The Association Website provides a tribute to the life of Guy. Please click on the link under “Breaking News” for wake and funeral services details if you wish to attend or send messages of condolences.
Ghazi Abu Nahl Chairman {/simplepopup} Guy F. Tozzoli Dies, Visionary Founder of World Trade Centers Association NEW YORK, NY, February 4, 2013 - A man who changed the world through international trade – and did so more than once – Guy F. Tozzoli, President Emeritus of the World Trade Centers Association (WTCA), died Saturday evening in his sleep in Myrtle Beach, SC. He would have turned 91 on February 12.
"It is with great sadness that we note Guy’s passing,” said Eric R. Dahl, Chief Executive Officer of the WTCA. “Our thoughts are with his family and friends worldwide. Guy leaves behind the powerful legacy of having built the WTCA into a global presence in nearly 100 countries since he founded it in 1970. More importantly, his vision of prosperity through trade and investment lives on. We remain committed in our pursuit of this vision."
Tozzoli was responsible for overseeing the planning, construction, and operation of the former 110-story World Trade Center towers. His impact ranges from pioneering the containerization of cargo by helping build the world’s first container port in Newark, NJ, to managing the design and construction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City, to founding and building the World Trade Centers Association that now comprises more than 300 members with “World Trade Center” branded facilities spanning the globe.
For the past four decades, Tozzoli was affiliated with the WTCA, which he founded in 1970 and served as president until 2011. “In January 2011, we congratulated Guy on his many grand accomplishments as he retired from being the WTCA’s first and only President,” said WTCA Chairman Ghazi Abu Nahl. “Today, we bid him farewell, knowing that his work is continued on through countless people, hundreds of centers and a network of nations.”
“Decades ago, United Nations Secretary General U Thant recognized Guy’s vision as a ‘United Nations of Commerce,’ and so it remains today,” he added.
Tozzoli was born in North Bergen, NJ and joined the Port of New York Authority in 1946. He served in the Navy during the Korean War from 1950 to 1952, and then returned to the Port Authority where he was responsible for construction of the first container port, shifting maritime activities from New York to Newark.
In 1961, he created the transportation section of the New York World’s Fair and, in 1962, was named the Port Authority’s Director of World Trade and assigned responsibility for founding the World Trade Center and constructing its headquarters. Tozzoli’s vision, encouraged by some and discouraged by many, led to the construction of the 110-story, 10 million-square-foot Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. Dedicated in April 1973, they were the tallest buildings in the world and included – at his insistence – the world-famous Windows on the World restaurant. Readers’ Digest termed the project, “the largest building project since the Egyptian Pyramids.”
In 1962, international trade accounted for 2.7 percent of the United States’ gross national product. Today, it accounts for more than 22 percent, growth that is due in no small part to Tozzoli’s singular focus on fostering world trade.
In 1970, Tozzoli shifted his perspective from one to many, founding the WTCA with an initial contingent of 15 cities in seven countries. He was immediately named its first volunteer leader and then sought relentlessly to expand to other countries. When the representatives of the People’s Republic of China asked for advice in the 1970s, he insisted they create world trade centers, overcoming their resistance because there was one in Taiwan.
In the 1990s, he worked to launch world trade centers in South and North Korea, an effort for which he was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
Upon retiring from the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey in 1987, Tozzoli became the first WTCA staff President, a post he held until his retirement in January 2011, when he was named President Emeritus.
In 1993, when the terrorist truck bombing seriously damaged the Twin Towers, Tozzoli, who had an office in the building, was trapped in a staircase for three hours. On September 11, 2001, he was stuck in traffic and just about to enter the Holland Tunnel. Looking across the Hudson River, he saw fire in the North Tower and then watched in horror as the second plane slammed into the South Tower.
In a letter to WTCA members shortly after, he mourned the tremendous loss of life, but said, “We must redouble our efforts to bring the world together under the banner of ‘Peace and Stability Through Trade.’”
“Guy did so very much that encompassed the world, from the world’s fair to world trade,” concluded Abu Nahl. “He was first and foremost a citizen of the world, and the world is a better place thanks to his Herculean efforts. We will miss him greatly.”
Tozzoli is survived by his wife, Cynthia, children Susan Tozzoli, Richard Tozzoli, William Tozzoli, Michael Tozzoli, Kathleen Bernaldo and Tom Tozzoli, and two grandchildren.
ARRANGEMENTS: Family and friends are invited to calling hours on Sunday, February 10th from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm at Becker Funeral Home, 219 Kinderkamack Road, Westwood, New Jersey. A funeral service will be celebrated on Monday, February 11th at 10:15 am at St. Matthew’s Church, 555 Prospect Ave., Ridgefield, New Jersey. In lieu of flowers, the Tozzoli family requests donations be sent to the World Trade Centers Association Foundation for the establishment of the Guy F. Tozzoli Scholarship Fund. For information on donating to the Scholarship Fund, please contact Niurka Coteron at the WTCA ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / tel. +1-212-432-2626).
About The World Trade Centers Association The World Trade Centers Association, headquartered in New York City, is a global network of more than 300 licensees in nearly 100 countries. Its mission is to promote prosperity through international trade and investment.
The WTCA will participate in the 16th China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT), a top international investment and trade facilitation platform, from September 7-10, 2012. The WTCA CIFIT program features a WTCA Pavilion and a WTCA Forum, both of which will introduce the WTC netowrk, facilities and member services. In addition, the WTCA will organize matchmaking and investment introductions, and visits to four cities for trade mission delegates. The WTCA's objective is to showcase its global network and brand to the Chinese and international business communities, strengthening its reach and the reciprocity among WTCs. For more information, please click HERE. More Articles... |
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