William R. Gast
Recently retired, Bill Gast is owner and partner with his brother of the boutique branding agency, Mangos, in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. With a background in the visual arts, Bill originally worked as a graphic designer and art director for publications. After attending the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he worked in industry as a product manager prior to owning Mangos.
Bill serves on the boards of Chamounix Mansion, the first international urban youth hostel in the USA, and University of the Arts, Philadelphia, his alma mater. He is currently President of Penllyn Club in Springhouse, PA and serves as Vice President of Earth Wind Fire and Water, a non-profit he and his wife, Vivian, formed in partnership with Ndabibi Environmental Conservation Centre in Naivasha, Kenya, East Africa. A strategic thinker and self-described renaissance man, Bill embraces the fact that there are just as many ways to teach as to learn. He and Vivian live in suburban Philadelphia.
