Clarke Ketter is the Chief Financial Officer and Ethics Compliance Officer for Babbage Cofounder. Clarke is a retired executive of Ashland Services Company, a division of Ashland, Inc. Upon the attainment of a Masters Degree in Business Administration in 1973, Clarke was assigned as an Economic Analyst in Ashland’s newly formed Synthetic Fuels Department. He then moved into the Corporate Planning and Analysis Department of Ashland Inc. as a Senior Planning Analyst involved with the coordination and development or annual and strategic plans and later as a Senior Business Analyst dealing with project analysis for the chemical, coal and synthetic fuels divisions of the company.

Clarke was the Manager of Corporate Planning of Ashland Inc. from 1982 to 1984 and then promoted to Director of Planning and Administration and Executive Assistant to the President of Ashland Services Company.