Clark D. Ivory is the CEO of Ivory Homes, Utah’s Number One Homebuilder since 1988. Since purchasing the company in 2000, Clark has built on his father’s legacy of principled leadership. 

 

Clark graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1988 and received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1992. He served on the Board of Directors of the Salt Lake City branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2006 to 2011, including three years as chair. He also served on the University of Utah's Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2014, spending five years as chair. In 2009, he chaired the Salt Lake Chamber, rallying Utah's business community in response to the Great Recession. He currently co-chairs Utah Community Builders, the foundation arm of the Salt Lake Chamber, and serves on the Advisory Board for the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. Clark and his wife, Christine Ivory, are deeply committed to education and have provided thousands of scholarships to students at Utah universities and colleges.

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Clark is actively engaged in several collaborative efforts to address housing affordability. In 2017, Clark and Christine founded Ivory Innovations, followed by the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability in 2018, which seeks to identify the nation's most promising ideas to improve affordability. Clark is also co-chair of the Real Estate Advisory Board at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and served previously on the Policy Advisory Board for the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

 

In 2024, Clark received the 45th annual Giant in our City Award by the Salt Lake City Chamber. The award recognizes Clark’s unwavering commitment to excellence, leadership, and philanthropy.