# Rupert Hopkins

> Rupert Hopkins is the founder and CEO of XSB, a Setauket, New York software company built around semantic data, parts intelligence and the stubborn problem of knowledge trapped inside technical documents. His path runs from New York economic development through a DARPA-backed logistics program to a patented system for turning specifications into connected, machine-readable data. In August 2024, Exiger acquired XSB, bringing its database of more than 100 million parts and 400 million attributes into a wider supply-chain risk platform.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at XSB, Inc., an Exiger company
- **Organizations:** XSB, Inc., Exiger, Dayton T. Brown, Inc., Center for Alternate Sources of Parts, State of New York
- **Known for:** Founded XSB in 1998 and led it through its acquisition by Exiger in August 2024., Recognized by XSB as a U.S. Department of Defense Industry Innovator., Served as an adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment, the Defense Standardization Program Office, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Soros Foundation.

## Career timeline

- **1987-1995** — Served as Long Island Regional Director of Economic Development for the State of New York.
- **1995-1998** — Directed the Center for Alternate Sources of Parts at Dayton T. Brown, a DARPA-backed logistics initiative.
- **1998** — Founded XSB, Inc. in Setauket, New York.
- **2011** — Named to the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council as XSB's president and CEO.
- **2017** — Presented XSB's work on the semantic value of standards at a NISO event and authored a JATS-Con paper on SWISS.
- **2018** — Co-authored a Model-Based Enterprise Summit paper describing how SWISS links technical requirements beyond the PLM vault.
- **2020** — Named as an inventor on U.S. Patent 10,685,032 for creating, storing and retrieving knowledge in specification documents.
- **2022** — Co-authored the Best in Show paper in the World Standards Day paper competition.
- **2024** — XSB was acquired by Exiger; Hopkins continued to be identified as XSB's founder and CEO.
- **2025** — A continuation of XSB's specification-document patent was granted as U.S. Patent 12,197,455, with Hopkins among the inventors.

## Achievements

- Founded XSB in 1998 and led it through its acquisition by Exiger in August 2024.
- Recognized by XSB as a U.S. Department of Defense Industry Innovator.
- Served as an adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment, the Defense Standardization Program Office, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Soros Foundation.
- Named as an inventor on U.S. Patents 10,685,032 and 12,197,455 concerning machine-readable knowledge in specification documents.
- Co-authored the 2022 World Standards Day paper competition's Best in Show paper, The Next Generation of Engineering Standards: A Proposal for Digital Transformation.
- Co-authored and presented work on SWISS, the Semantic Web for Interoperable Specifications and Standards, at JATS-Con and the Model-Based Enterprise Summit.

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — U.S. Patent 12,197,455, naming Hopkins and six colleagues as inventors, was granted for systems that create, edit, store and retrieve knowledge in specification documents.
- **2024-08** — Exiger acquired XSB and announced that its parts and logistics intelligence would be combined with Exiger's supply-chain platform.
- **2022-12** — Hopkins, Bob Solomon and Andrew Bank won Best in Show in the 2022 World Standards Day paper competition.

## Links

- Website: https://xsb.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupert-hopkins-253a4070
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/xsbinc

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