Fred Perrotta

Fred Perrotta is the co-founder and CEO of Tortuga Backpacks.

He is originally from New Castle, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the University of Maryland, Fred worked on the AdWords team at Google. That job allowed him to visit India for the first time and to live in Sydney, Australia for three months. In 2010, Fred left Google to co-found Tortuga Backpacks.

Fred is an avid traveler and has visited, lived in, or worked in over a dozen countries. Aside from travel, he nerds out about live music, standup comedy, nonfiction books, black coffee, and the NBA. When not traveling, Fred can be found eating his way through the Bay Area.