Ryanย Clarke
Founder And Principal at Blackwood Family Enterprise Services
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolRyan Clarke is a founder and Principal at 4Roots Tax Advisory and a Family Enterprise Advisor with 11 years of experience helping Canadian family businesses navigate complex tax, succession, and governance challenges. He combines deep technical tax expertise (CPA, In-Depth Tax Certificate) with a human-centered advisory style that prioritizes family dynamics, conflict prevention, and lasting legacy planning. Ryan specializes in estate and trust planning, post-mortem tax, pre-sale/M&A tax structuring, and asset protection, delivering boutique, accessible advisory services often unavailable without engaging large firms. Based in Edmonton, he supports peers and the profession through mentoring and CPA Canadaโs In-Depth Tax program, and brings an uncommon blend of empathy and practical tax engineering to high-stakes family transitions.
11 years of coding experience
CPA, CA, CPA, CA at Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada)Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA at Acadia University
Github Skills (9)
swift7
programming-language6
key-value2
key-value-store2
consistent-hashing2
computer-vision1
deep-learning1
utilization1
form-data1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tomwan/AutoFences
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
rclarke10/nwtel-scraper
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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