Tom Martorelli's Experience
Tom is an author, management consultant, and nonprofit organization executive. He has co-founded over a dozen businesses, including strategic management companies and nonprofits in the economic development, community service, and environmental fields. He provides leaders in business and community organizations with strategic planning and implementation support, including operations, marketing, community relations, international development, and business plans/funding applications.
Tom began his career summarizing evidence for Leon Jaworski and the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in Washington, DC. A graduate of Princeton University, he is one of the first graduates of Harvard Business School to work in nonprofit organizations both before and after earning his MBA. Tom’s lifelong interest in community health centers began with service as chair of the board of directors of Fenway Community Health Center, for whom he later wrote For People, Not for Profit, a history of their first 40 years. In the environmental field, he directed the Appalachian Mountain Club’s National Volunteer Project and wrote Organizing Outdoor Volunteers, its final report for the Mellon Foundation.
Tom has been a travel writer for Road Scholar Adventure Travel, an historian for Boston College, and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers as a market researcher. He was project manager for the Discovery Channel’s 1996 Olympics visitor center in Atlanta, GA, and later its Titanic traveling exhibition. Tom currently consults with Success Centers, a San Francisco-based workforce development agency. He is currently president of the African Economic and Community Development Foundation, based in the United States and Cameroon.