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Phil Baerenwald’s undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering may sound almost boring at first, but his jobs in the toy industry and now in the candy business have been anything but. Baerenwald, president of J.L. Clark, is a creative guy at heart who got his start in research and development. “I’ve always been in the new products area - creating things from nothing,” he says. “There’s a lot of creative people out there and I really enjoy working with them.”