Barry Brucker was elected to the Beverly Hills City Council in 2005 and re-elected in 2009. He is serving his second term as mayor and was vice mayor in 2008 and 2010. Mayor Brucker won a seat on the Beverly Hills Unified School District Board of Education in 1997, the first successful write-in candidate in the state of California in 15 years. He was re-elected in 2001 and served two terms as school board president, in 1999 and 2003.
Mayor Brucker is the president and CEO of Independent Ink, Inc., an international manufacturer of digital and security printing inks. Mayor Brucker holds six US patents in digital and security printing technologies and has been a featured speaker at seminars and conferences on digital printing and anti-counterfeit technologies.
Mayor Brucker attended Beverly Vista School and graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1975. He received his BA degree with honors in business/economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.He and his wife, Sue, have long been active in civic, educational, cultural and humanitarian organizations. He is a past president of Concern II Children's Cancer Foundation, which honored him with its “Spirit of Concern” award; he’s also a former vice president of the Beverly Hills Education Foundation. Mayor Brucker served on the board of governors of Century City Hospital and now serves as a director of Friends of Sheba Hospital.
Mayor and Mrs. Brucker have two children: Richard and Lauren, who attended Beverly Hills schools.
