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. Ivory Homes has built more than 23,000 single family homes and 3,000 apartment homes. Instead of expanding out of state, Ivory Homes has focused on developing housing for every stage of life.
Clark graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1988 and received a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1992. Clark served as a director of the Salt Lake City branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2006 to 2011, leading three years as chair. He also served on the University of Utah's Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2014, serving five years as chair. In 2009, he was chair of the Salt Lake Chamber, rallying Utah's business community's response to the great recession. He currently co-chairs Utah Community Builders, the foundation arm of the Salt Lake Chamber, and also serves on the Advisory Board for the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. Clark and Christine are committed to education and have provided more than 2,500 scholarships to students at Utah universities and colleges.
Clark is actively engaged in several collaborations to address the issue of housing affordability. In 2018, Clark and Christine established the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability which seeks to find the nation's most promising ideas to improve affordability and Ivory Innovations in 2017. Clark is also co-chair of the Real Estate Advisory Board to the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and previously served 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.