Management Team

Steve Campus  :  President
Steve Campus founded Audience Response Systems, Inc. (ARS) in 1984 as a subsidiary of Campus Productions, and later Campus Group Companies, Inc. Steve is a visionary and pioneer in the use of ARS in medical and pharmaceutical training. He broke new ground by using ARS in multi-site product launch events, and has been a driving force in the introduction of new ARS interactive applications across a variety of industries.

Steve Knapp  :  Executive Vice-President
Steve Knapp is co-founder of ARS and director of its operations. He led the development of the company’s original hardware and software systems, and has contributed to the steady growth of the company since its inception.

Debbie Minor  :  Vice President Sales
Debbie Minor has led the ARS sales team since joining the company in 1990. Debbie is widely respected in the industry for her broad knowledge and experience with the ARS interactive meeting systems, and is responsible for more than quadrupling the company’s sales during her tenure.

Jerry Velders  :  Vice President Research and Development
Jerry Velders joined Audience Response Systems, Inc. in 1990. He is the company’s chief software scientist, and drives the evolution of ARS’ products at all levels. Jerry wrote all internal hardware and software code for the wired response systems and the drivers for every keypad system supported by our application software. He continues to expand development of ARS applications with drivers and software for new technology such as polling with Smartphones. Jerry has written many of the add-on modules and continues to expand their capabilities as customer needs demand.

Jeff Osborne  :  IT Manager
Jeff Osborne came to ARS in 1989 as a System and Design Engineer, responsible for the development and production of wired response systems. He currently oversees all customer and internal hardware systems for ARS.

Nikki Davis  :  Event Production Manager
Nikki Davis leads the ARS event production department in the delivery of over 500 client events per year. She joined the company in 2000, and has been Production Manager since 2002.

Brad Copes  :  Pulse Systems Manager
Brad Copes directs the ARS Pulse team in the delivery of interactive and audio-visual technology for highly specialized moment-moment polling applications. He began his career at ARS as Production Manager in 1999, and assumed responsibility for Pulse operations in 2004.