Clark D. Richey Jr. is a well known Java Engineer and one of the java champions founder. Clark is the founder of JUGaccino (MD based Java User's Group) as well as SpotLight and PermissionSniffer (a open source project).  Richey is one of the members of the Java Champions community. He is also a principal consultant in the RABA Technologies, a RISC group for advanced research and development.

He completed his B.S. degree in Computer Science from UMUC. After that he completed his Masters degree in Computer Science from American University.

Clark is also an associate professor of Architecture and Design for Loyola College situated in Columbia,MD where he shares his knowledge with his students. He is also involved in implementing highly secure and service-oriented architectures using Jini (promotes the concept of dynamic registration, discovery, and execution).