Executive Team
Bill Bancroft
Chairman
Bill Bancroft, co-founder of Advanced Recovery Systems, LLC, was born and educated in Montreal, Canada. He is a chartered accountant (Canadian certificate, equivalent to CPA in the U.S.) and was a senior officer for Swiss Bank Corporation for 15 years in Montreal and Calgary. Bill entered the high-tech industry as a founder of Dynix, Inc. (later merged with Ameritech Inc.). As CFO and Executive Vice President for Dynix, Inc. Bill helped build a technology business that had annual revenues of over $100,000,000. Bill also currently serves as Chairman of the Board and founder of Clear Course, Inc.™, an e-learning company, and he is also involved in the hospitality industry as an franchise owner of several Courtyard by Marriott hotels.
Blake Reynolds
President & CEO
Blake Reynolds, co-founder of Advanced Recovery Systems, LLC, was raised in the collection industry. Blake’s father was a pioneer in the flat-fee collection industry in the U.S. While receiving his education at Brigham Young University, Blake began his career as a sales representative for United Compucred, Inc. working his way to Western States, Regional Manager before opening his own agency in 1990. Blake brings fourteen years of experience and expertise in the credit & collection industry. Blake has founded two very successful nationwide collection companies and is the author of the international business method patents utilized by ARS. Having twice built national sales forces, Blake also provides experience, expertise and innovation in the areas of Sales & Marketing.
Jeff Baker
Chief Technology Officer
Jeff Baker brings over 20 years of hardware and software development and management expertise to Advanced Recovery Systems, LLC. Jeff has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University, and a master's degree from Stanford University (Magna Cum Laude / 4.0 GPA). He worked eleven years for Amdahl Corporation, specializing in cache memory design and mainframe error detection, recovery, and reliability. After a very successful tenure at Amdahl, Jeff went to work for Novell. While at Novell he joined the GroupWise team, developing and improving Novell’s GroupWise product. He also developed a web-based document management system. For the last three years Jeff has compiled a team of very experienced and talented software developers and together they have been immersed in the development of the Advanced Recovery Systems suite of web-based software solutions.