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James N. Clarke
James Nathan Clarke (Born December 20, 1972) is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist.

Raised in Rexburg, Idaho by his parents John A. (Jack) and Marilyn Tuckett Clarke, he spent two years in the Dominican Republic as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints starting in 1991. He married Andrea Earl of Holladay, Utah in 2002, and they are the parents of three children.

He studied Business and Geography at at Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho) and later Brigham Young University before attending Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2007, completing the OPM Program. He later attended the University of Oxford, Kellogg College, where he received a Masters Degree (MSc) in Major Program Management from the Säid Business School in 2012.

After selling pest control for CMC (Creative Marketing Concepts, now Vivint) in 1994 and later for Salesnet and Protect America, he began working at the Sundance Resort summers and through BYU. He later accepted an offer to work full-time at Sundance until he started his first company, I-Satellite, with fellow co-founders in 1999 inside of the APX (now Vivint) office space, thanks to a favor from friend, Vivint founder, fellow Idaho transplant, and former Dominican missionary, Todd Pedersen. Later buying his way out of I-Satellite partnership obligations, he founded CLEARLINK on October 1, 2001, just weeks after the events of 9/11, which was named by combining his last name (Clarke) with his fiancé's last name (Earl). After working with OdysseyWeb from the beginning of 2003, CLEARLINK acquired OdysseyWeb, a developer of websites, later that year. Clarke then appointed OdysseyWeb leaders to management positions at CLEARLINK, who helped the organization grow to over 2,000 full-time employees. CLEARLINK was acquired in 2011 by Pamlico Capital in 2011 (formerly Wachovia Capital ) and in 2016 CLEARLINK was sold to Sykes (NSDQ:SYKE).

Days after selling CLEARLINK, he founded Clarke Capital Partners--a family office focused on growth equity and leveraged buyouts) and immediately began allocating to companies, PetIQ(NDSDQ:PETQ) and Contour. Later in 2011, he moved his family and the investment firm from Salt Lake City to Provo, Utah.