Bruce Walker serves as an outside director for Walsworth. He served as dean of the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri for 20 years. He made the transition to a faculty member in 2010, serving as a professor of marketing and as co-director of the Cornell Leadership Program for high-ability undergraduates for five years.
Bruce holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Seattle University, and both an MBA and a Ph.D. in business from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Prior to coming to Missouri, he was a faculty member and administrator in the business schools at the University of Kentucky and Arizona State University.
In addition to his place on the Walsworth board, Bruce serves on the boards of directors of the MIC Accelerator Fund Manager, Inc.; Centennial Investors, the angel-investing network in mid-Missouri; the Trulaske College of Business’s Walker Foundation; and the University of Missouri Flagship Council. He is also on the advisory board for Spirit of ’76 Fireworks and is a partner in Quartet Arizona, LLC.