Richard Torrenzano

Richard Torrenzano is chief executive of The Torrenzano Group, a global reputation and high-stakes issues management firm specializing in building and protecting corporate reputations, helping clients grow their business and enhance brand and shareholder value.

The Torrenzano Group helps organizations take control of how they are perceived™

He is a sought-after expert and leading commentator on brands, crisis, media, reputation and financial market volatility…and leads with authority across AI, cyber and digital attacks. He co-authored the bestselling, award-winning book, ‘Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand, or Business Against Online Attacks’, published by St. Martin’s Press.

The book coined the phrase ‘Digital Assassination’ and offers a roadmap to what is happening online, why it is happening and what you can do about it. It reveals how digital attacks can ruin brands, damage reputations and endanger lives. It exposes strategies digital assassins and trolls deploy and defines ways to turn the tables on their deception. His new leadership and crisis eBook, launch in June 2025, ‘Command the Conversation’: Next Level Communications Techniques, offers leading edge ideas on managing reputation and brand tailored for leaders in a rapidly evolving AI driven digital and cyber environment. The book’s forward is by Dick Grasso, longest serving New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) chairman and chief executive officer. Each episode is a bylined article previously featured in Fortune, Corporate Counsel Business Journal (CCBJ), Directors and Boards, and Directorship Magazine, published by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Richard has extensive hands-on experience in the world’s financial markets. Throughout a period of rapidly developing public policy issues, historic levels of market activity, unprecedented change in world affairs and intense media coverage, he planned and directed the NYSE’s global activities and programs. For nearly a decade, he was a member of the NYSE’s Management (policy) and Executive (operations) Committees. And on the firing line as the Big Board’s chief spokesman, he had a unique vantage on business, industry and media. For several years, he chaired the NYSE Foundation. Richard developed strategies to address market challenges including governance and shareholder activism; regulatory, disciplinary actions, algo trading, volatility and liquidity; corporate mergers, acquisitions and IPOs. He counseled chief executives and boards in the U.S, EU, Asia and Latin America, as well as several heads of state.