Jake Hopkins is the SEMA Young Executives Network’s (YEN) newest spotlight member. Hopkins is a YEN select committee member and the marketing manager at FASS Diesel Fuel Systems, manufacturers of Fuel Air Separation Systems (FASS), a diesel fuel lift pump and fuel filtration system designed to improve diesel truck fuel mileage, engine performance and extend the life of diesel injection systems.
SEMA: What is the best advice you have ever received?
Jake Hopkins: Your life isn't defined by the people in your life, your job, or where you live. It's defined by your attitude about those things.
SEMA: What keeps you in the industry?
JH: How many people get to live their passion? There's nowhere I'd rather be!
SEMA: Where can you be found on a Saturday?
JH: Cleaning my truck, or shopping for truck parts.
SEMA: How do you prepare for an important meeting?
JH: Carrying notes and a cup of seriously strong coffee.
SEMA: If you could go to lunch with one industry leader, living or dead, who it would be?
JH: Brian Scotto, co-founder and chief creative officer of Hoonigan Industries.
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