Mr. Hopf has worked in numerous business sectors: medical devices, health care, intercollegiate athletics coaching, fashion, pharmaceuticals, banking, insurance, real estate, food products, retail groceries, office products distribution, high-tech materials, remote sensing, travel, upstream and downstream oil & gas, pulp and paper, chemicals, mining, engineering and construction, retail, professional medical societies, and building products. He has led major consulting engagements in Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, and Kuwait.

For more than a decade he lectured on strategy and organizational renewal at Stanford University in their graduate Management Science and Engineering department. He also teaches decision-making and execution at the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas. Also, Mr. Hopf has lectured on strategy at the University of Minnesota, the Copenhagen Business School, and the University of Zurich.

Mr. Hopf was a Managing Director for the management consulting firm Strategic Decisions Group and served on their Executive Committee. He was a member of the Band of Angels in Silicon Valley and has advised and invested in dozens of startups. He was on the Board of Directors of Listen Technologies and the Advisory Board for the Odyssey Dance Theatre. He also served on the University of Utah College of Fine Arts Advisory Board.

Mr. Hopf earned a Masters of Business Administration degree with the highest distinction from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and has B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He received the Walter Jacobs Prize for inspiring confidence and enthusiasm amongst his peers while at the Tuck School.

Mr. Hopf has earned his third-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.