Fan Casting The Thinker/Clifford Devoe in The Flash: Crimson Comet

Secretly the one behind cracking the formula which gave Edward his powers, although it could be a case of Edward was a former Mercury labs scientist and went to work for Devoe Technologies (which I would have Clifford be a CEO of in this universe) they worked on the formula together and he essentially wants to capture the Flash to study him as the formula is a temporary fix and also wants to apply it to a project he's working on i.e. Thinking cap. As he reasons that the Flash has enhanced thought process and reaction times and it is being done sustainably. He keeps hitting dead ends but his research of the Flash makes him wonder about a new angle?