Chief Executive Officer

steve@conduitsys.com

Prior to founding Conduit Systems, Steve was a co-founder and principal of Edge Research, a full-service custom research firm where his focus was on consulting with corporate, governmental, non-profit, and public affairs clients for over 15 years. Steve has extensive formal training in quantitative and qualitative research with a strong background in research methodology. Hopkins frequently delivers research findings and analysis at public forums, seminars and trade conventions. Before founding Edge, Steve was a Senior Analyst at two of Washington DC's leading polling firms -- Mellman, Lazarus, Lake and Hickman-Maslin. He also headed his own private consulting business, in which he worked for a wide variety of corporate and political clients, as well as a number of other research firms.

Steve is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research with a BA (Political Science) and an MA (Quantitative Political Analysis) and currently lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Betsy, and their two children.

Chief Operating Officer

adam@conduitsys.com

Adam has over 20 years of market research experience including extended time at A.C. Nielsen Marketing Research, CBS SportsLine, Citrix Systems, Simmons Research and his own Berg Research. His experience spans many areas of research including on the client and supplier sides, as well as in the online and offline environments. In addition, he spent two years living in small town in Japan, working as a business manager and English instructor.

Adam was raised in New York and went on to attend the University of New Hampshire and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology. He currently lives in Boca Raton with his wife, Heather, and their two daughters, Emily and Molly.

Chief Technology Officer

chris@conduitsys.com

As the CTO of Conduit Systems, Chris is responsible for maintaining the infrastructure behind the scenes, as well as working with partners and vendors to design and develop Conduit's Panel software and core systems.  He has almost a decade of experience with various CMS platforms, working with companies in the research, education, entertainment and financial sectors.

Chris is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and currently lives in the Washington, DC area.