BRAD HOPPER
SPOTFIRE
BRAD HOPPER
TITLE: VP OF VERTICAL MARKETS, CLOUD SOFTWARE GROUP
INDUSTRY: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
LOCATION: UNITED STATES
Brad Hopper has spent his career at the forefront of data analytics in manufacturing and energy.
With a background in engineering and a passion for problem-solving, he has helped shape Spotfire’ s visual analytics technology into a powerful tool for industries ranging from semiconductors to oil and gas.
Brad has a background in manufacturing, including degrees from UC Berkeley, and worked at AMD as a process and yield engineer. Both gave him unique insights into the potential applications of Spotfire’ s technology.
His journey with Spotfire began in the early days of the company.
“ I joined just a few years after the company started. I was employee number 65,” he recalls.“ The moment I saw Spotfire, I said,‘ this is something that really needs to be in the semiconductor business’,” Brad explains.
“ Those industries are very underserved from a data analytics perspective. They have these superadvanced, super high-powered and very complex vertical applications. Each of those industries has different ones, and they buy them for four, five million for the plant.”
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