Theo Clarke

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Theo Clarke (born 1958) is an English management consultant, educator, journalist and games specialist.

[edit] Management

Originally an archaeologist, Clarke moved into commercial computing with Esso before helping to found a software consultancy in the mid 1980s. He later co-founded a management consultancy and became an external lecturer for Cranfield University, and co-author of IEEE and ISO standards on software engineering. He was also a co-author of the British Computer Society's Industry Standard Model. Throughout the 1990s he was active in professional bodies: acting as an examiner for the Institute of Management Consultants, editor of the Association for Project Management's magazine Project, court member of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants and freeman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.

[edit] Games

Clarke co-founded SFC Press in 1986 with Paul Evans, was a contributor to Games Games Games magazine for fifteen years, managed a UK games distributor in the late 1990s and has managed a UK chain of games shops since 1998.

Throughout the 1990s, Clarke co-organised the UK Board and Card Games Championships, which formed the UK heats for the international tournament Intergame.

[edit] Education

In September 2005 Clarke took up the newly formed post of Director of Business & Enterprise at Stradbroke Business & Enterprise College. Charged with converting a traditional rural high school into a specialist school, he established the College as a hub school in the Schools' Enterprise Education Network and was appointed Lead Practitioner Coordinator by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).