Education
Born in Queens, New York, Florio graduated from New York University with a business degree in 1972.
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Born in Queens, New York, Florio graduated from New York University with a business degree in 1972.
In the 1980s he served as publisher of Gentlemen’s Quarterly. Later he went to work at The New Yorker. He was named as President of Conde Nast in 1994 by owner Si Newhouse, and Chief Executive Officer two years later.
He stayed as President/Chief Executive Officer until January 2004, but remained on contract as vice chairman for three more years. Under Florio"s tenure, Conde Nast comprised Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, in addition to a dozen or so other titles, specializing in demographic niches.
Florio, who had a history of heart disease, died Thursday, December 27, 2007, aged 58, at New York Presbyterian Hospital of complications from an earlier heart attack.