Jake Hopkins has been named YEN’s newest member of the month. 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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