Tom Hart of Lafayette, Calif., recently assumed responsibilities as president of the 300,000-member Brigham Young University Alumni Association. He will serve a two-year term.
Paul Gilbert of Phoenix, Ariz., was named president-elect.A native of the San Francisco area, Hart received a bachelor of science degree in business management from BYU's Marriott School of Management in 1970. He obtained his master's in business administration from the Harvard Business School.
Hart served as a special assistant for appointments to President Richard M. Nixon from 1972-1973. He then joined the Marriott Corp. in Washington, D.C., where he became vice president of hotel development. In 1982 he joined his current firm, The Shorenstein Co., a large privately held real estate firm, where he has served as a senior executive.
Hart served on the finance and executive committees of the successful "Yes on Propositions 108 and 111" committees in California and has worked with the Boy Scouts of America.
His appointment as president caps more than 20 years of involvement with the BYU Alumni Association, including service on two Regional Alumni Councils, as a board member and past president of the BYU Management Society-San Francisco chapter, and as a member of the Alumni Association's board of directors and executive committee.
Gilbert is a founding partner of the Phoenix law firm Beus, Gilbert & Morrill, where he specializes in real estate development and land use law. He received his bachelor of science in history cum laude from BYU in 1968 and his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971.