BRUCE D. MOSBY
Bruce Mosby’s career includes business executive and community leadership roles in both for-profit and non-profit sectors. He has successfully managed several large, small, start-up, franchise, LBO turnaround, entrepreneurial and rapid growth organizations. Bruce has a well-earned reputation for effectively building high-performance teams and organizational cultures, developing and implementing business strategies that result in enhanced performance, and delivering financial accomplishments. The geographic scope of Bruce’s leadership responsibilities has been local, regional and national in nature.
Born in Queens , New York , Bruce is one of three children of a devoted mother and a father who was in the first class of the now famous Tuskegee Airmen, a career Air Force officer. Bruce graduated from the New York Military Academy and went on to receive his B.S. from Cornell University after successfully completing their prestigious Hotel and Restaurant Management Program. Upon graduation, he gained his early management training foundation with the Hilton Hotel chain in New York City and subsequently with Steak and Ale Restaurants in the Washington , D.C. area.
Bruce went on to work with the firm of Laventhol and Horwath in Washington, DC, an international accounting and consulting firm, providing management consulting services to the real estate, retail, hotel and food service industry throughout the U.S. He later joined Petlin Hotels/Johnny Appleseed Restaurants, a regional hotel and restaurant chain, as Director of Restaurant Operations, where he advanced rapidly to Executive Vice President and oversaw the planned franchise and company-owned growth of the organization, establishing the firm as a regional presence throughout the mid Atlantic area.
Because of his increasing reputation for leadership and management excellence, Bruce was recruited as Vice President of Franchising for Jenny Craig Weight Loss, Inc. based in San Diego . After helping the chain grow by over 100 units, he was recruited away to Diet Center, Inc. where he became President and CEO of the nation’s then largest franchised weight loss chain, with over 2200 units throughout the U.S. and Canada .
After Diet Center, Bruce went on to perform an operational turnaround for a poorly performing 300-unit east coast division of Long John Silver’s Restaurants. Upon completing that assignment, Bruce came to Phoenix in 1997 as the Chief Operating Officer of a start-up specialty retail concept, Spincycle Laundromats, Inc. He led a nationwide consolidation growth strategy that grew store count from 6 to 150 locations, raising $200 million in growth capital along the way.
Bruce became involved in Phoenix community when he established a close working relationship with the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce after becoming named President and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Black Chamber of Commerce. During his tenure, he established key corporate and community partnerships throughout the greater Phoenix area, which enabled the Black Chamber to become a well-recognized, collaborative entity in the community.
Currently Bruce is Executive Director of Unity of Phoenix, a local non-profit organization, a Board member and consultant to the Chairman/CEO of Phoenix based Pantheon Chemical Corporation, and managing partner of an education company that provides software solutions to Masters Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation students. A graduate of the Phoenix Valley Leadership Class XXI, Bruce is a current or past board member of: Chairman-Phoenix Sky Harbor Aviation Advisory Board, Magnet Capital, Phoenix Symphony, Drugs Don’t Work in Arizona , Self Employment Loan Fund, Phoenix Convention, Visitor’s Bureau Multicultural Council, and Arizona Women’s Chamber of Commerce.
