Ken Clark

Contact Information Ken Clark International, Inc, 2000 Lenox Dr., Ste. 200 Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 NJ Tel. 609-308-5200 Fax 609-308-5250

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.kenclark.com

Ken Clark International (KCI) provides executive search and management assessment services to companies in select industries around the world. Its industry practices include biotechnology and pharmaceutical; consumer goods and services; industrial, chemical, and agricultural; medical equipment; scientific products and services; and advanced technology. Clients have included Eastman Kodak, Siemens, PepsiCo, and Boston Scientific. The company has US offices in Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Miami; Newport Beach, California; Philadelphia; Princeton, New Jersey; and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and international operations in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific. KCI was founded in 1996.

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Kenneth M. (Ken) Clark
Industry President: Kristine Steen
Business Development Director, North America: Drew Diodato

Competitors:
Heidrick & Struggles
Korn/Ferry
Spencer Stuart

• Active: '90s, 2000s
• Genres: Jazz
• Instrument: Organ, Keyboards, Organ (Hammond)
• Representative Albums: "Mutual Respect," "Eternal Funk"

Biography

Not to be confused with country/bluegrass artist Ken Clark or the late bebop drummer Kenny Clarke, the Ken Clark profiled in this bio is a jazz-oriented organist who is also comfortable playing R&B, funk and blues. The Boston resident (who plays electric keyboards and acoustic piano as secondary instruments) isn't the type of organist who is content to emulate Jimmy Smith's seminal ‘50s and ‘60s recordings--Smith is an influence on Clark, but so are Larry Young, John Medeski (of Medeski, Martin & Wood fame) and Charles Earland. Clark's playing sometimes brings to mind German organist Barbara Dennerlein, although she isn't necessarily an influence--rather, it's probably a case of Dennerlein and Clark having mutual influences. Clark isn't a native Bostonian; he was born in New York City in the late ‘60s and grew up in the Big Apple. But in the mid-‘80s, he moved to Boston to study jazz with pianist Charlie Banacos and guitarist Garrison Fewell and attend the prestigious Berklee School of Music. Instead of returning to New York after studying with those artists and attending Berklee, Clark opted to remain in Boston and became a fixture on the city's music scene. In 1992, he formed the Ken Clark Organ Trio, employing Mike Mele (who he knew from Berklee) on guitar--and eleven years later, the group was still together. Clark's group has used different drummers over the years; in 2003, Steve Chaggaris (another Berklee alumni) was playing drums for Clark's trio. As a sideman, Clark has backed various female vocalists, including Fatwall Jack and swing/jump blues artist Michelle Willson. Clark's albums as a leader include The Ken Clark Organ Trio on Aspire Records and Eternal Funk, which the Severn label released in 2003. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide

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• Born: in Neffs, Ohio
• Active: '80s-2000s
• Major Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
• Career Highlights: The Replacements, Species II, Transformers
• First Major Screen Credit: Basket Case (1982)

Biography

A former physical culture model, handsome, blond Ken Clark (born Kenneth Donovan Clark) gave Richard Egan a run for his money in the beefcake sweepstakes at 20th Century Fox in the mid-'50s. But Clark, who also appeared on such television shows as The Jack Benny Program and Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, was dropped by Fox after Love Me Tender (1956, with Egan and, in his screen debut, Elvis Presley). He then drifted into low-budget fare, including what proved to be his most memorable film, the Roger Corman thriller Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959). After the failure of a proposed TV series -- Brock Callahan, based upon a character in William Campbell Gault's detective novels -- Clark went Europe, where he starred in such fare as Arizona Bill (1964) and as Agent 077 in two 1965 Italian spy movies. He resumed his Hollywood career in the '80s with such productions as Twice in a Lifetime (1985) and the mini-series Invasion (aka Robin Cook's Invasion) in 1997. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

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