Mr. Ahart is the chair of The Rippel Foundation Board of Trustees. He currently serves as chair of corporate and nonprofit practice groups in the law firm of Schenk, Price, Smith & King LLP in Florham Park, NJ, previously having served as the firm’s chairman and as its managing partner and chair of its Management Committee for nearly 20 years.

Mr. Ahart has extensive experience in business counseling, having represented a wide range of corporate and nonprofit entities, and is a frequent speaker on corporate governance, transactional, and financing matters. He has had numerous community leadership positions, including as the current Board Chair of the Mimi Washington Starrett Foundation, which provides grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations for the betterment of the greater Morris County, NJ community, the prior chair of the Lafayette College Board of Trustees, chair of the Board of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce; and as a member of the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, NJ. After graduating with honors from Lafayette College in 1969, Mr. Ahart attended the Cornell Law School—receiving his law degree in 1972—and served as law secretary to the Honorable Joseph Halpern, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.