Perceptive Software's Leadership Team
Scott Coons
President & CEO
Scott Coons joined Perceptive Software in 1995 and has piloted the company to a substantial and sustained period of growth. Early on, Coons refocused the company's market strategy, and under his guidance, Perceptive Software has become a leading developer of enterprise document management, imaging and workflow software.
An engineer with customer focus, Coons also established a long-term vision for the company's flagship product, ImageNow. His role today includes contributions in strategic guidance, tactical implementation, executive team leadership and architecture/design leadership for the product's technical evolution.
Coons began his career as a software engineer with the University of Kansas after graduating from KU with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. In 2006, Coons was honored as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® and a Computerworld Honors Program Laureate.
Coons is an advisory board member of the Kansas State University College of Business Administration and the University of Kansas School of Engineering. In addition, he is a founding member of the Software and Information Technology Association of Kansas (SITAKS) board of directors, a statewide trade association created by the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC).
Tim Helton
Executive Vice President, Sales & Alliances
Tim Helton is executive vice president of sales and strategic alliances at Perceptive Software. Helton's responsibilities include directing sales for public and private sectors worldwide, building strategic alliances, refining product positioning and identifying new markets. Since joining Perceptive Software in 1999, Helton has developed and formalized the direct sales organization responsible for the company's rapid revenue growth, which has exceeded 40 percent annually for the past six years.
Helton began his career at IBM in Kansas City in the early 1980s and held senior leadership roles with two other privately-held technology firms. Helton joined Perceptive Software after working with company executives in an advisory capacity.
Helton serves on the board of the Enterprise Center of Johnson County, an organization that promotes entrepreneurial development in the Kansas City metropolitan area. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Kansas State University.
Cary DeCamp
Executive Vice President, Marketing & Communications
Cary DeCamp joined Perceptive Software in 1996, leading the early charge for securing new customers. DeCamp's success in building the higher education market created important momentum that spread quickly to other verticals.
To support the needs of a growing company, DeCamp assembled an in-house marketing and communications team that leads demand generation and marketing communications. Under DeCamp's direction, the marketing team is responsible for setting the company's communications and messaging strategy and driving global marketing efforts.
Before joining Perceptive Software, DeCamp was director of sales for DMJK Consulting, a system integration and application development service provider. Previous experience also includes owning an accounting software company, serving as director of sales for Triad Technology Group and working as a senior systems consultant for Coopers & Lybrand. DeCamp graduated from Union College in Lincoln, Neb., with a bachelor's degree in accounting.
DeCamp is a member of the Board of Trustees at Union College, serves on the Shawnee Mission Medical Center Operating Finance Committee and is a member of the Technology Advisory Council for the University of Kansas School of Business.
Brent Flanders
Vice President, Technical Services
With 16 years of success in the technology industry, Brent Flanders cites exceptional customer service combined with technical brilliance as his top priority. Since joining Perceptive Software in 2002, Flanders has shaped the technical services division to provide a solid business platform from which Perceptive Software delivers quality service from implementation through training and support.
From a customer point of view, someone else was here before. Flanders understands this and knows that even to be considered acceptable, his team and Perceptive Software as a whole must surpass the best each competitor or predecessor had to offer. While Flanders evangelizes the service quotient daily, he combines proven mechanisms, processes and procedures with exceptionally skilled individuals to exceed customers' expectations.
Flanders earned a degree in pharmacy at the University of Kansas in 1984. While practicing pharmacy he started a then-unique computer dealership, MacSource, which provided solutions and support for the fledgling electronic publishing industry. After MacSource, Flanders held executive-level positions at pharmaceutical and computer technology firms including the precursor to Perceptive Software.
Patrick Kearney
Vice President, Professional Services
Patrick Kearney joined Perceptive Software in 2006, after 16 years of overseeing successful, enterprise-wide ERP initiatives for global customers. Kearney has applied his leadership and development background to the expansion of the rapidly growing professional services division.
Kearney has refined the established processes of the organization's professional services arm, and has applied a global awareness aligned with the organization’s ongoing corporate strategies. In addition, he has effectively guided the expansion of the professional services division to keep pace with Perceptive Software's consistent customer growth.
A veteran of Andersen Consulting, Kearney advanced to become vice president and managing partner of Clarkston Consulting, a management and consulting firm specializing in consumer products, life services and manufacturing industries. There he served as the face of multi-million-dollar customer ERP implementations, strategic ERP initiatives and Supply Chain Management. He earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College.
Eric Bur
Chief Financial Officer
Eric Bur added his financial and business leadership skills to the Perceptive Software executive team in 2007 in the newly created position of CFO. Bur oversees day-to-day financial operations and human resources. At a higher level, he works with the executive team to understand long-range corporate objectives and define financial strategies to achieve those goals, helping to ensure the company continues on a growth rate that is four times the industry average.
Previously, Bur served as CFO for NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) since 2001, and as senior vice president of finance for American Century Investments. He also spent 11 years as an accountant at Ernst & Young after completing his bachelor's degree in business and accounting at the University of Kansas.
Marjorie Adair
Vice President, Corporate Finance
Since 2002, Marge Adair has successfully framed Perceptive Software's strategic initiatives within the context of responsible fiscal policy. Adair primarily manages corporate finances, working closely with auditors, tax accountants and attorneys to apply sound accounting and forecasting practices to Perceptive Software's aggressive expansion goals.
In addition to looking out for the financial health of the company, Adair oversees administration, which provides internal, company-wide service and support. She has molded this division around the understanding that Perceptive Software and its employees are their customers.
Adair brings 17 years of experience as the controller for several technology firms including the Windward Group and NetCom (now Earthlink). She earned dual degrees in business management and accounting from the University of Denver and received her M.B.A. from Rockhurst University. Adair was honored by the Kansas City Business Journal as a member of the 2006 class of Women Who Mean Business.
Lynne Wilson
Vice President, Information Technology
Lynne Wilson joined Perceptive Software in 2009 as the Vice President of Information Technology. Wilson’s responsibilities include defining and implementing the company’s IT strategy to support its overall business strategy, directing the enterprise’s IT organization to optimize its day-to-day effectiveness, and ensuring the company gets the best value for its investment in IT infrastructure, applications and services. Wilson’s personal mission is to provide internal customers the level of outstanding service and value that she is accustomed to providing external customers.
A seasoned business professional with a depth and breadth of experience in leveraging technology as a critical competitive business tool, Wilson has 20-years of success delivering global enterprise solutions to a wide variety of industries. Wilson has led business and technology teams through numbers of global ERP implementations with oversight for achieving return on investment of technology initiatives. Before joining Perceptive Software, Wilson held executive level positions with four of the leading global business management and IT consulting firms (Arthur Andersen LLP, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation) where she worked with executives to identify the right technology solutions to sustain or to gain a leading edge within their industry.
Wilson has a bachelor's degree from the University of Central Missouri. She launched her career in Audit with Arthur Andersen LLP before moving to Business Consulting where she fast-tracked to Partner.
Darren Knipp
Chief Technology Officer, Vice President of Products & Solutions
As Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Products and Solutions, Darren Knipp leads Perceptive Software product strategy, establishing the company’s product and technical vision while leading all aspects of the software development processes. He plays an integral role in the company’s strategic direction, development and future growth in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market.
Before joining Perceptive in 2003, Knipp was an initial Product Manager at Interwoven (now Autonomy). Prior to that, Knipp served as Senior Engineering Manager for Boeing and spent nine years as an officer in the United States Air Force, working as a Development Engineer on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and various NRO systems.
Knipp received a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy and a master’s in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas. He also holds an MBA from Webster University.