[1] At the age of ten years his parents relocated his family, including his three siblings, to Canada.
[1] Cuzzocrea's first job was shining shoes at the age of eleven years; as a child he also worked in a bowling alley and had summer jobs picking tobacco in Mount Brydges and working for his father doing residential renovations.
[1] After fourth months studying and getting accreditation, he started a fifteen years stint as an employee in the financial industry before launching his own firm, Planmar Financial Corp.[2][1][3] He founded the Planmar Foundation around 1998[1] and co-founded the Love First group in 2016.
[3] Cuzzocrea is the largest single financial supporter of The United People of Canada not for profit organisation which tried to buy Saint Brigid’s Church in Ottawa in 2022.
[1] He was a friend of Arpad Horvath, who was killed by serial-killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer[6] in 2014.