Stefan Hoppe was named president and executive director of the OPC Foundation after being nominated by its former director, Thomas J. Burke, who resigned during the last Board of Directors meeting. Hoppe was elected by the board in the same meeting. Burke will remain as an officer on the OPC Foundation Board of Directors, and will continue his widespread evangelism for OPC UA adoption across various industry domains.
Stefan Hoppe is a long-standing member of the controls and automation industry and the OPC Foundation. As an electrical engineer, he joined Beckhoff in 1995 where he developed the OPC classic server and in 2006, the world’s first OPC UA server integrated into an embedded controller.