Andrew Hoppin
Andrew Hoppin (born July 12, 1971) is a civic technology entrepreneur, investor and advocate for OpenSaaS software. He has worked on open source software development and is a former Chief Information Officer for the New York State Senate.
Education
Hoppin attended Brown University as an undergraduate student and received a master's degree in environmental science, policy and management in 1998 from the University of California-Berkeley.
Career
During the 2004 U.S. Democratic presidential primaries, Hoppin worked to develop the online campaign for candidate Wesley Clark. He went on to become director of business strategy for CivicSpace, a for-profit company founded by veterans of the Clark and Howard Dean campaigns which sought to pick up "where the technical arms of the Dean and Clark campaigns left off" by developing an open source set of software tools based on the Drupal content management system "to help progressive political groups build and publish Web sites, blogs, forums, and photo galleries, create polls and surveys, organize events, create mailing lists, and more."
Hoppin subsequently founded GoodStorm Inc. (now Zazzle), an online marketplace that allows designers and customers to create their own products. He worked as a consultant building online communities for the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In 2009 he was appointed Chief Information Officer of the New York State Senate where he encouraged the use of open source software to rebuild the senate's website and oversaw the creation of new systems to promote "transparency, efficiency and partipation." These systems included OpenLegislation, a web service that delivers real-time legislative information to the public and "Bluebird," a constituent relationship management application based on CiviCRM.
Upon leaving the Senate in 2011, Hoppin and Sheldon Rampton co-founded NuCivic, a private company which built open source projects for government clients, including an open data platform called DKAN. NuCivic was acquired in December 2014 by GovDelivery, a government communications firm in St. Paul, Minnesota (now Granicus). Hoppin continued as president of the Granicus Open Data team until January 2017.
Other activities
Hoppin has served as an advisor or director of civic technology organizations including OpenPlans, Civic Commons, the New Organizing Institute, and Netroots Nation. He currently chairs the board of directors of Global Integrity, an independent, nonprofit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world using local teams of researchers and journalists to monitor openness and accountability.