CHRISTIAN BASS JOINS HOPS AS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGY AND PLANNING

Miami, Fla., June 2, 2008 - HOPS, a leading provider of data analytic tools and products, today announced that Christian Bass has joined the organization as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning.

In his role, Bass will work with the CEO and executive stakeholders to define and steer HOPS’ vision for the future. He will provide leadership to the productivity process by coordinating initiatives, as well as maximizing resources and employee time to create an effective project management organization. Bass will also help identify new opportunities, market changes and competitive threats in light of company strategy.

"Christian has an accomplished record of focusing growth-staged companies for exceptional results," said Simeon Kohl, CEO of HOPS. "With Christian's guidance, HOPS is poised for dramatic growth in the years to come."

Bass has 14 years of organizational leadership experience through roles in entrepreneurship, technology services, training for international leaders and productivity consulting to executives at some of the nation's largest and most successful companies.

Before joining HOPS, Bass was a consultant with Pcubed, a company honored by Consulting Magazine as one of the seven "Jewels" in North American consulting. He also founded Successant, a consultancy providing practical leadership in executive strategy, decision making and productivity solutions. In these roles, Bass led successful change initiatives for companies in industries that included defense, energy, finance and information technology.

Bass graduated with honors from Presbyterian College, earning a B.A. and was a recipient of the Dean's Award for Management of Science in Project Management from George Washington University.

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About HOPS
HOPS (www.hops.com) is a leading provider of data analytic tools and products, utilizing its unique data analysis engine to quickly get clients to places they have never been before. HOPS, which stands for Heuristic Optimized Processing System, is the fastest and most flexible on-demand analysis solution available for large sets of data. In a recent test, HOPS did an all-column scan of over 70,000,000 rows in only 13 seconds. Deployed through a SaaS model, HOPS’ products can analyze data for an entire enterprise, offering the scalability to work with hundreds of terabytes of data, cost effectively. Currently, HOPS services over 100,000 unique subscribers, houses 600 terabytes of customer data and produces over 350,000 monthly reports for the healthcare, financial processing and retail markets. HOPS is headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida.