Interview with James Clement by Jonathan Despres. Go to the Interviews. I am a lawyer by training, and I practiced business and tax law for a number of years before I got the entrepreneurial bug and went off to start my own business. I co-founded a brewpub (a microbrewery which sells its beers on-premise) in Ithaca, NY, home to Cornell University and Ithaca College. I ran this business for about nine years, and then fled the cold North to live in Sunny Florida. For the past decade, I've been acting as the COO for various companies and providing business consulting to other companies. I was recently the COO for a nutraceutical company in Orange County, California, and am now consulting for a dietary supplements company in Petaluma, CA.