Paul Henry Guzzi (born June 17, 1942) is an American businessman and former

Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth The Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth is the principal public information officer of the government of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The Secretary of the Commonwealth oversees the Corporations Division, the Elections Division, the ...

. He was president and chief executive officer of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce for 19 years.

Biography

NRHP ceremony for Harvard Square Subway Kiosk, April 1978

Paul Guzzi graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

with a degree in government. Guzzi was a member of the

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from 1971 to 1974. In the 1974 general election Guzzi defeated

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John M. Quinlan to be elected Secretary of the Commonwealth. Guzzi served as

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from 1975 to 1978. In 1978, Guzzi ran for the

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, he was defeated in the Democratic primary by

Paul Tsongas Paul Efthemios Tsongas (; February 14, 1941 – January 18, 1997) was an American politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1979 until 1985 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 until 197 ...

. He then served as chief of staff to

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

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. In 1980 Guzzi was named interim chancellor of the newly formed Massachusetts Board of Regents for Public Higher Education. Guzzi was a senior vice president of

Wang Laboratories Wang Laboratories was a US computer company founded in 1951 by An Wang and G. Y. Chu. The company was successively headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1954–1963), Tewksbury, Massachusetts (1963–1976), and finally in Lowell, Massachusett ...

from 1981 to 1991. He was a vice president at

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from 1991 to 1993. Guzzi served as president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2015. He has served as a director of several corporations. Guzzi is also a trustee of the

Citi Performing Arts Center The Boch Center (formerly Citi Performing Arts Center and Wang Center for the Performing Arts) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. It manages the historic Wang and Shubert theatres on Tremont S ...

and a director of The Boston Foundation. Guzzi is co-host of ''This Week in Business'' on the

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network.

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Paul Guzzi
bio at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce 1942 births Living people Harvard College alumni Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Politicians from Newton, Massachusetts Secretaries of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 20th-century American businesspeople {{US-business-bio-1940s-stub