Robert (Buddy) Kretzman and his wife Clare recently moved from North Stamford to Darien. They have been Connecticut residents since the early 1980s, with a brief stint in Chicago for Buddy’s career.
They have been married 43 years, have two adult sons: Matthew, who lives in Darien with his wife and three children aged nine, eight and four; and Christopher, who lives in New Canaan with his wife and daughter Bryce, age three. Buddy is blessed to spend much of his time with family, enjoying their activities, watching Darien junior football, travel soccer, town basketball, baseball and cheerleading. Buddy and Clare have a small house on Long Island, in which they spend much of their summer. Buddy and Clare walked the Camino de Santiago, hiked in the national parks in Utah and Colorado and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, thankfully before the recent hostilities.
Prior to Buddy’s retirement in 2013, he served as the chief legal and administrative officer of Revlon, with responsibility for global legal, human resources, compliance, security, real estate and facilities and licensing areas. After retirement, he served on Revlon’s board of directors. He graduated from St. John’s University in 1974 and from St. John’s University School of Law in 1977.
After retiring, Buddy took numerous courses at Fairfield University, focusing primarily on religious studies across numerous faith traditions. He is a certified spiritual director and supervisor serving at the Murphy Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Fairfield University and chairs the Murphy Center’s advisory board.
He also serves on the board of directors of Food Rescue US, a non-profit organization that secures fresh food from restaurants and food stores and uses unique software applications to efficiently distribute it to food banks and homeless shelters nationally. Its dual mission is to address food insecurity and mitigate the environmental impact of food waste.
