Matthew Hoepfinger

Matt received a Master’s degree in computer science from Michigan State University, after which he moved to Golden, Colorado where he worked in the telecom industry as a software engineer for a few decades. He started keeping bees in 2011, which quickly became his passion. He served as the director of Mountain High Beekeepers Cooperative and played an essential role in founding the Colorado Professional Beekeepers Association.  In 2019 he became a field specialist for Bee Informed Partnership where he worked with dozens of large commercial operations. Now Matt works directly for the E.L. Niño Bee lab where he continues his work with California commercial beekeepers providing consulting, sampling, testing and data analysis services.