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MARIETTA -- Three alumni have been named to the Marietta College Board of Trustees.
They are Stephanie Esparza Peloquin, class of 2006, Brian Brucken, class of 1994, and Jack Hopkins, class of 1965. Terms begin July 1.
Peloquin was an ex-officio member on the board upon her becoming chairman of the Marietta College Alumni Association two years ago. She was elected earlier this year to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees.
She has been involved with the college's Eastern Texas Regional Association. Peloquin has bachelors' of arts in accounting and finance from Marietta College and was inducted to the Tau Pi Phi business honorary, and has a master's in accounting from the University of Denver.
Peloquin works in financial reporting and business planning for Newfield Exploration Co., an independent energy company in the exploration, development and production of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. She previously worked in the Financial Services sector of the Audit and Assurance service with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Denver, Colorado.
Brucken was elected to serve a five-year term on the Board. He is vice president of worldwide sales, digital service management, at BMC Software and is responsible for overall go-to-market for digital service management.
Prior to BMC, he held a variety of leadership roles for 17 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He began his career in field sales and managed several Fortune 500 accounts in the Cleveland area and held several district and area management roles in both the enterprise group and HP Software. He was Vice President for the Americas for HP's Service and Portfolio Management business for three years and, after achieving stellar results, was subsequently promoted to Vice President for the Americas for Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Software Alliances and Channels organization. Prior to joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Brucken was with Micro Center, a microcomputer hardware and software reseller, where he opened up the Cleveland branch and grew the business to $65 million in five years.
Hopkins was elected chairman of the Alumni Association and will serve a two-year term as an ex officio member on the board of Trustees. He is the founder of Jack Hopkins Consulting Services and was president and CEO of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation, from which he retired in 2008 after serving for 25 years.
He also served as President of Nazareth College in Michigan and chaired the Communication Department at Hope College in Michigan. He was the senior adviser to FSG in Boston and was acting executive director for CF Insights, a division of FSG.
He has worked with non-profit and foundation boards, spoke at numerous philanthropic, educational and community and economic development conferences, consulted with community foundations throughout the U.S. and with small and international businesses and non-profit organizations, written numerous professional articles and owned and managed residential and commercial real estate.
He is a past-president of the Rotary Club of Kalamazoo and this month will receive its Red Rose Award.
Hopkins received the Jewett Oration Prize when he graduated from Marietta and later earned his master's and doctoral degrees in interpersonal and organizational communication from Ohio University. He received honorary doctorates in Human Letters from Nazareth College in 1990 and Humanities from Marietta College in 1991. That year, he also served as a visiting scholar at Marietta.
In 2008, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus at Marietta, received a Community Development Hero Award by LISC and, upon his retirement, the board of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation named the Jack Hopkins Community Redevelopment Fund in his honor. In 2016, Hopkins and his family established the Art and Betty Buell Endowment for Communication, which supports Marietta College's Communication Resource Center and the initiatives of the Department of Communication. The endowment was created to honor his former professor, the late Buell and his wife.