birth_place president position_or_quorum portals name birth_date article_title birth_name
ogden , utah , united states thomas s. monson first quorum of the seventy lds carl b. cook 15 october 1957 carl b. cook
 carl bert cook
carl b. cook

carl bert cook -lrb- born october 15 , 1957 -rrb- has been a member of the first quorum of the seventy of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints -lrb- lds church -rrb- since 2011 .
cook was born in ogden , utah .
he married lynette hansen in december 1979 .
they are the parents of five children .
his permanent residence is in liberty , utah .
cook received a bachelor of arts degree in business marketing from weber state college in 1981 , and an mba from utah state university in 1982 .
in 1982 he began his career with the xerox corporation and then in 1985 became a partner with the boyer company .
cook has served in numerous callings in the lds church , including full-time missionary in hamburg , germany , bishop , stake president , and as president of the new zealand auckland mission .
at the time he became a general authority , cook was in the fifth quorum of the seventy , serving as an area seventy in the church 's utah north area .
he started serving as a counselor in presidency of the church 's africa southeast area in 2011 , and became the area 's president in august 2014 .
