Bruce C. Leininger was born and raised in New Jersey to working class parents. He worked his way through college, graduating with a B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an M.A. from Columbia University Graduate School. In 1990 he relocated to Dallas, Texas. There he met and married Andrea Scoggin. Career transitions took them to San Francisco, California, where their son James was born in 1998. Bruce is currently a busy corporate executive, working as both President of Accelerated Performance Resources, LLC, an H.R. consulting company he founded in 2002, and as the Director of Human Resources for Rotorcraft Leasing Company.