Strategic Advisory Council Members

Tony Tortorice

State CIO and Director
Washington’s Department of Information Services (DIS)e CIO and Sector Vice President

Governor Chris Gregoire named Tony Tortorice as State CIO and Director of Washington’s Department of Information Services (DIS) in May , 2009. Tony, who started at DIS in July, is a California information technology executive with more than 25 years of IT experience in both the private and public sectors.

Tortorice was the chief information officer for the Los Angeles Unified School District (the nation’s second largest public school system). There, he led the recovery of a troubled HR/Payroll implementation. Tortorice was also the senior IT executive for the Los Angeles Community College District, the largest system of community colleges in the nation. Before working with the community college system, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Prior to beginning a doctorate program in public administration at the University of Southern California, Tortorice served in the U.S. Navy, where he started his career in IT by installing his command’s first word processing system. Tortorice holds a master’s degree in systems management from USC, and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of the State of New York.