Spirit of Recovery
Award Honorees
Ed Spatola 2010
Founder and CEO,
New Found Life
Ed Spatola is a New Jersey native and has over 20 years of Recovery. He is a graduate of Rutgers University with a MS degree in Communications. He has been married forty-seven years and has four children, six grandchildren, one great granddaughter and another blessed event on the way. He is active in the community and participates in many humanitarian efforts.
Ed has extensive business experience. After 30 years of service, Ed took early retirement from First Fidelity Bank (now Wachovia) where he was a senior vice president of Product Development, Branch Administration and sales. Over the next three years, he established and cultivated a marketing and promotion business with ties to the National Football League. He later sold his interest in 1993 in order to start New Found Life, an endeavor that captivated his imagination and energy because it focused on saving the lives of individuals and helping families who suffer from the devastation of alcoholism and addiction.
Ed and the clinical staff are supported by employees who have worked for many years at NFL and in the field of recovery. Ed has continued to serve the community and the interests of New Found Life residents and alumni. He has mentored and employed many of the NFL Alumni and is constantly working to help others.
After eighteen years of growth, New Found Life, its dedicated management team, coupled with a sound clinical staff and devoted employees have turned a simple idea of helping others into a quality company with an outstanding reputation.
Ed is always promoting the principles of twelve step recovery. He truly believes in this life changing program and is constantly telling others “go help someone”. His forte is to evaluate and place people who need help in the facility that fits their needs. As he says, “It’s a beautiful thing!”
