James M. Clark, Jr. is President of Elm Ridge Exploration Company, LLC, a privately held oil and gas exploration and production company, which he founded in 1991. Jamie is a member of the Board of Overseers for Bard College at Simon’s Rock, located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a Trustee of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, located in New York City, and a Trustee of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

His education includes degrees from Bard College at Simon’s Rock, A. A. 1978, Brown University, A. B. 1980 and Columbia Graduate School of Business, M. B. A. 1985.

Closer to home, Jamie is the past-chair of Alcuin's Board of Trustees. He has been married for 32 years to Kathy Clark. One of their two children, Sam, attended Alcuin.