LA 500: Tamara Gustavson

Tamara Gustavson

Board Member, Public Storage

Tamara Gustavson is the largest individual shareholder of Public Storage, a self-storage company founded by her father, B. Wayne Hughes, in 1972 that operates thousands of company-owned locations in the United States and Europe. She is a former vice president of the company. Gustavson also works with American Commercial Equities Management, a commercial real estate company that owns and operates retail properties in California and Hawaii. She is a trustee of USC and a supporter of charitable and community organizations, particularly in the areas of education, health care, and medical research. From 2004 to 2008, she served on the board of the USC-CHLA Institute for Pediatric Clinical Research.