Jon as Vinny Verelli

With his degree in Marketing Jon Schwartz decided there’s no business like show business, and has been performing professionally for over 35 years!

He has toured prisons with a production of Samuel Becket’s Waiting For Godot and has performed mime at Carnegie Hall.  Jon also worked with Tennessee Williams in the world premiere production of Tiger Tail and worked on ships as cruise director and entertainer.

For 20 years Jon and his wife Ginny King produced shows for the event business in Atlanta.   Jon has written, produced and directed fourteen interactive mysteries that have been produced at over 400 corporate events. Jon and Ginny now live in the Mountains of  North Georgia.

For the past 8 years Jon’s alter ego, Vinny Verelli, has been presenting humorous keynotes and hilarious conference summaries. As  a member of AATH (the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor) Vinny says, “If you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong.”

In February of 2004 Jon, as Vinny Verelli, won the NSA Comedy Idol Competition in St. Louis and recently won the State of Georgia humor and table topics competition.  In December 2007, Vinny was the closing keynote speaker at the 2007 CAPS (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers) convention in Halifax.  Jon is a past president of NSA Georgia and has been the Chapter Member of the Year two times.

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