BC alums named to school’s board of trustees

Two Bridgewater College alums were elected to the board of trustees at BC last week.
James Russell Bruner, Bridgewater class of 1977, is president and chief executive officer of Maersk Inc. and executive vice president of A.P. Moller-Maersk, the largest shipping company in the world. He joined Maersk in 1989 and worked his way up through the ranks, holding positions as director of Maersk Container Service Co. Inc., vice president of the Intermodal Department and vice president of Latin America Services before relocating to Brazil and serving as president of Maersk South America Ltd.

Bruner became senior vice president of Maersk Inc. in 2001 and assumed the position of president and CEO in 2004. He was named to his current position in 2006.

Bruner and his wife, Kay, and their two children, live in Madison, N.J.

Michael D. Del Giudice, a 1984 graduate of Bridgewater College, is a senior partner with Citigroup Global Markets in New York City, a company that provides brokerage, investment banking and asset management services to business, governments and individuals. Formerly, he was vice president of Smith Barney Inc., an associate with the Bank of Nova Scotia and plant manager for the irradiation and polymer modification division of Neutron Products Inc.

Del Giudice, who earned his master’s in business administration from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration in 1990, received the Bridgewater College Young Alumnus Award in 2001 for his “success in a high-pressure, ultra-competitive industry.”

Del Giudice resides in New York City.

– Staff Report