About Clarke-Reavley Consultants

Clarke-Reavley Consultants (formerly operating as Stargate Consultants Limited) provides consulting services in the fields of R&D management, science policy, technology transfer and intellectual property management. To complement our consulting activities, we also design and present courses on R&D personnel management for scientists and engineers in industrial and government laboratories who wish to become more effective managers/supervisors.

Thomas E. Clarke, M.Sc., M.B.A.

Born in Vancouver, B.C., I attended the University of British Columbia where I obtained a Masters degree in Physics. After graduation in 1967, I joined the administrative staff of the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment in Pinawa, Manitoba, and in 1968 became head of their Public Relations Office. I returned to U.B.C. in 1969 to take an M.B.A. degree specializing in the management of research and development personnel.

In 1970 I joined the Personnel Branch of the Defence Research Board in Ottawa, Ontario, where I conducted internal management studies on the evaluation of scientific and technical personnel.

In 1972, I became a Policy Advisor in the Ministry of State for Science and Technology providing advice and recommendations designed to improve the quality of management of science and technology in Canada.

I joined the Technology Branch of the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce (now Industry Canada) in 1974 where I took charge of the Technological Innovation Studies Program which funded research studies and projects in the area of technological innovation and technical entrepreneurship, and its management. In 1979 I designed Canada's Industrial Innovation Centre Program which resulted in the establishment of the innovation centres at the University of Waterloo and at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal.

In February of 1980, I left the Federal Government to establish my own consulting firm, Stargate Consultants Limited, to provide science policy and program advice, R&D management courses and technical information services. For the past 30+years, SCL has provided consulting services to many Canadian government science-based departments and agencies. In November of 2012 I sold SCL and established Clarke-Reavley Consultants to provide the same services as SCL.

I also design and present specialized R&D management courses to scientists and engineers in government and industry research laboratories. Our management workshops are the longest running R&D management workshops in Canada. Scientific personnel from every science-based Canadian government department and agency have attended, as well as personnel from U.S. government laboratories, and personnel from private companies in Canada, China and the U.S.A.

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Jean Reavley, B.Sc., B.L.S., M.B.A.

After obtaining a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, I worked as a technical information officer at the British Petroleum Company Research Centre in England. I emigrated to Canada and joined the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment in Manitoba, where I established and administered the technical library.

After obtaining a degree in Library Science at U.B.C. I moved to Ottawa, Ontario where I established and administered the technical library at Telesat Canada. I then joined Stargate Consultants Limited to provide technical information services to government and private sector clients in the Ottawa area.

I took a study break and went to Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, from which I graduated with an M.B.A. degree in 1987. I rejoined Stargate Consultants Limited and worked on a number of projects on science and technology policy and programs. I also worked under contract to the former Science Council of Canada.

In 1991, I moved west to Alberta and joined the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment of the Department of National Defence where I was in charge of reports publication and technical information services.

In 1995, I moved further west to Vancouver Island and once again provide consulting and technical information services through Stargate Consultants Limited. In 2021, I moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia.